#latter

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. ↗

— William Blake

#art #cannot #exist #flatterer #general

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. ↗

— Diogenes

#former #friends #good #good friends #him

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#compliments #country #even #flattered #give

Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield. ↗

— Geoff Downes

#actually #compilation #fragmented #full #just

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#door #dwell #enters #exit #former

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#authority #children #entertainment #entertainment industry #everything

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#any #kinds #latter #something #spend

It's flattering if people think I'm attractive. If it helps, great, but it's not going to get in the way of me wanting to win. That's what I'm all about. ↗

— Lorrie Fair

#attractive #flattering #get #going #great

This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims. ↗

— Aristide Briand

#authority #closely #connected #connection #cooperation

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. ↗

— David Brin

#always #comes #demand #else #everyone