Faults Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

— Elias Canetti

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

— David Hume

We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.

— Laozi

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only…

— Dale Carnegie

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

— Francis Bacon

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

— Alexander Pope

Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable