• It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.

    Antisthenes: It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.
    "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 4),