Crooked Quote by Chanakya

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

— Joseph Addison

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

— Tacitus

“His eyes blaze and sparkle, his whole face is crimson with blood that surges from the lowest depths of the heart, his lips quiver,…

— Seneca

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

— John Webster

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Another man whose social life has ruined him.

— Dashiell Hammett

He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

— Horace

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he…

— Arthur Koestler

He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must…

— David Hume

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

— Confucius

He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate…

— Saadi