A Quote by Tacitus

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

Tacitus

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Tacitus
Roman - Historian
55 - 120

All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]

Horace

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

Tacitus

Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]

Horace

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Graham Greene

God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.

Thomas Aquinas

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

Aristotle

Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

Walter Raleigh

Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]

Samuel Johnson

The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except Antarctica, they're in tropical rain forests, they're in deserts, they've evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they're capable of incredibly long-distance flights.

Michael Dickinson

It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.

Carl Linnaeus

The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the temptation, yield to it almost unconsciously and become the tools of toadies and flatterers. "Authorities," "disciples," and "schools" are the curse of science and do more to interfere with the work of the scientific spirit than all its enemies.

Thomas Huxley

The world is restructuring, and all of the enemies that used to exist are kind of gone, so now they are looking out for new enemies.

Howard Rheingold

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.