Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is better to be slandered without being bad.
Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.
It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.
Integrity is praised, and starves.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.
Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.
Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.