A Quote by Marcus Aurelius

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
Roman - Leader
121 - 180

People generally despise where they flatter.

Aristotle

Truth and ceremony are two things.

Marcus Aurelius

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

Samuel Beckett

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

Rob Lowe

There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

Madame de Stael

Things I've done in the past always make me cringe a bit. When I think back to being a Christian. Proselytising to people, that makes me cringe.

Derren Brown

I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

Elizabeth I

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

Luis Bunuel

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Jonathan Swift

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

Mark Twain

Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves.

Marie Lu

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

What could be nicer than to have three horrible children behind you in an airplane, and the next set, you go onstage and you talk about how much you despise the children and what you would like to do to them on an airplane? That's the only time I would gladly take a terrorist on. It'd be worth it to get rid of these children.

Joan Rivers

Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.