A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship).
[Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes.
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.
Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.
I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.'
In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative life a man may, with now purified mental gaze, pass on to the contemplation of the Divine Light.
The best books I read as a child were set in far-flung places, but also portrayed characters experiencing a life far removed from my own.
As high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is God's love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
The Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges' list against laws duly enacted by the people.
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.
Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.
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