Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.
Popularity? It’s glory’s small change.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist, novelist.
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they fo not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
Epicurus (341-270 BC) Greek philosopher.
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
Lord Halifax (1796-1865)
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas’d he could whistle them back.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Carlyle.
Whatever is popular deserves attention.
Mackintosh.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Penn.
A popular man soon becomes more powerful than power itself.
The great secrets of being courted, are, to shun others and to seem delighted with yourself.
Bulwer.
A generous nation is grateful even for the preservative of its rights, and willingly extends the respect due to the office of a good prince into an affection for his Person.
Junius.
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of the few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Kant.
True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
Lord Mansfield.
The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken, if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.
Montaigne.
Applause waits on success; the fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats along the stream, glides with the current still, and follows fortune.
Franklin.
Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both; the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; avoid the second, be not seditious.
Quarles.
Those who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men, or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.
Greville.
I put no account on him who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.
Goethe.
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
Colton.
A habitation giddy and unsure hath he that buildeth of the vulgar heart.
Shakespeare.
The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest, but the most fanatical leaders; as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.
Lamartine.
The common people are but ill judges of a man’s merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
Horace.
Glory is safe when it is deserved; it is not so with popularity; one lasts like a mosaic; the other is effaced like a crayon drawing.
Boufflers.
Popularity? It’s glory’s small change.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist, novelist.
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they fo not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
Epicurus (341-270 BC) Greek philosopher.
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
Lord Halifax (1796-1865)
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas’d he could whistle them back.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Carlyle.
Whatever is popular deserves attention.
Mackintosh.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Penn.
A popular man soon becomes more powerful than power itself.
The great secrets of being courted, are, to shun others and to seem delighted with yourself.
Bulwer.
A generous nation is grateful even for the preservative of its rights, and willingly extends the respect due to the office of a good prince into an affection for his Person.
Junius.
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of the few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Kant.
True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
Lord Mansfield.
The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken, if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.
Montaigne.
Applause waits on success; the fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats along the stream, glides with the current still, and follows fortune.
Franklin.
Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both; the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; avoid the second, be not seditious.
Quarles.
Those who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men, or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.
Greville.
I put no account on him who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.
Goethe.
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
Colton.
A habitation giddy and unsure hath he that buildeth of the vulgar heart.
Shakespeare.
The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest, but the most fanatical leaders; as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.
Lamartine.
The common people are but ill judges of a man’s merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
Horace.
Glory is safe when it is deserved; it is not so with popularity; one lasts like a mosaic; the other is effaced like a crayon drawing.
Boufflers.
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