Quotes on ridicule

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

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Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it

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Ridicule is the best test of truth

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Ridicule is the language of the devil

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Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.

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Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

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If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

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The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

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My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

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ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

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