Saint Augustine once said: Those who indulge you are not always friends, and those who criticize you are not always enemies. A friend's criticism is loyalty; an enemy's kiss is deception.
When Giuliano de' Medici entered the church, members of the Pazzi family immediately came forward and kept up a lively conversation with him.
When Caesar entered the Senate of the Directory, Brutus was right behind him. So, aside from assassination, had Brutus tried any other way to stop Caesar from becoming emperor?
Canon lawyers believed that one could not refuse aid on account of a person's past sins and foolishness. If you did not open the door, how could you turn them into one of your own?
By the time Georgiana came downstairs, the dinner party had already begun. Polina had become the center of attention, the most dazzling person in the room.
At the same time, in the dim corners, there were people watching her critically. But they soon noticed Georgiana, and their expressions changed in an instant.
Before he shed his disguise, Lockhart's smile had won awards. But his smile did not work on a Basilisk.
Georgiana once again put on the smile Severus always said was unattractive. Who would show up at a social gathering wearing the same bitter expression as him?
If Socrates was always telling the greeks that he knew nothing, eventually making them weary of him, then the philosopher on the boat who told the boatman, "How unfortunate that you do not know this or that," would make people detest him. And who would save someone they detested?
The boatman would even be in the mood to imitate the philosopher and ask whether he could swim. When the philosopher said no, the boatman could even laugh and say, "How unfortunate."
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