“A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment”
Mark Twain
“Fool's praise is censure”
Proverb
“It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.”
William Somerset Maugham
“The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves”
Demosthenes
“A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world”
English Proverb
“They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice”
William Penn
“Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.”
Juvenal