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),
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.