Luc de Clapiers Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Humility, Pride, Men

• The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Envy, Philosopher

• It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Mediocrity, Praise

• The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. I, on the contrary, maintain that they ought to be praised in their lifetime if they merit it; but jealousy and calumny, roused against their virtue or their talent, labour to degrade them if any one ventures to bear testimony to them. It is unjust criticism that they should fear to hazard, not sincere praise.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Unjust Criticism, Envy

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