Flattery Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.”

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

“People who have no vices, have very few virtues.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Live by old Ethicks and the classical Rules of Honesty. Put no new names or notions upon Authentick Virtues and Vices. Think not that…

— Sir Thomas Browne

“...for although we may fully respect our social conventions...it may unfortunately happen that , through the perversity of others we encounter only the thorns…

— Marquis deSade

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from…

— Louis XVI of France

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

— Alexander Pope

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

— Seneca the Younger

“Hypocrisy is said to be the homage that vice pays to virtue,—decorum is the outward expression of that homage; and if this be so,…

— Charles Robert Maturin

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero