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“Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.”

Needs Law Perfect Beauty Kindness Praise Modesty Loving Kindness Perfect Beauty

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at "capitalism" because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.”

People Ifs Knows Enough Use Law Capitalism Advantage Economics Direct Criticism Tests Praise Referring Comparative Advantage

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.”

World Law Mother Praise Favors In-laws Mother In Law

Book:Lamb in His Bosom

Source: Lamb in His Bosom

“The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius might furnish the subject of a sincere and ample panegyric. The wisdom of his laws and the success of his arms rendered his administration respectable in the eyes both of his subjects and of his enemies. He loved and practised the virtues of domestic life, which seldom hold their residence in the palaces of kings.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)