Plato
Philosopher
"Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it."
Reproach quotes
Reproach
21 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
"Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it."
William Blake
Poet, Painter
"Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!"
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"There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate."
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"Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach."
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"Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back."
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"There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame."
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