In Rome you long for the country; in the country oh inconstant! you praise the distant city to the stars
He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.
False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.
I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.