Censure Quotes

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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
o Jonathan Swift

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure which is useful to them to praise which deceives them.
o François de La Rochefoucauld

The villain’s censure is extorted praise.
o Alexander Pope

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends, or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the others.
o Diogenes