Calumny Quote by Horace Download Open image “False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calumny Hypocrite Please Praise Vicious
The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Our receptivity to praise stands in no relationship to our vulnerability to mean disdain and spiteful abuse. No matter how stupid such abuse is,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace Copy Share Image
“He made a pit and digged it. He was cunning in his plans and industrious in his labors. He stooped to the dirty work… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear. — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
“Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
“Saint John of the Ladder explains it thus: "The devil tempts us to commit sin; and when he does not succeed, he points scornfully… — Fr. Belet Copy Share Image
Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent. — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
