A Quote by Antisthenes

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

Antisthenes

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Antisthenes
Greek - Philosopher
444 BC - 371 BC

We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.

Benjamin Franklin

Ill buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or Ill find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own.

Theophilus London

For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.

Michel de Montaigne

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.

Susanna Centlivre

The Trudie Styler that is spoken of is extremely privileged in life and feels that privilege.

Trudie Styler

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

A. E. Housman

If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to end the injustice that grants that privilege in the first place.

Ayelet Waldman

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

William Kingdon Clifford

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

Alexander the Great

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded [invaded in Franklin's print] by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.

Patrick Henry

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.

Sir Fulke Greville

Caring for someone who is terminally ill is traumatic, but it's a privilege too. It's part of being a woman.

Zoe Buckman

Recognizing your place of power and privilege in an unfair system can, as an ally, help you to start using that privilege as an opportunity to do good.

Courtney Act

I decided that in Wakanda, the royal family would have extremely dark complexions, like so black they're blue. My attitude was, because the royal family is dark, the darker you are, the more you're considered royal.

Brian Stelfreeze

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