He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Slander is worse than cannibalism.
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.