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• 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, Hypocrite, Politics

  Jerusalem ch. 3, plate 55, l. 60 (1815)

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• The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

  Plutarch

  Friends, Pain, True Friend

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

  Madame Roland

  Wise, Respect, Truth

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• I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

  Richard Steele

  Character, Thinking, Envy

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• There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Vanity, Self

  Francis Bacon (1873). “The Essays of Lord Bacon”, p.114

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• Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

  Ben Jonson

  Tyrants, Flattery, Beast

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.242

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• In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Reality, Names

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• The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

  Juvenal

  Class, Ignorant, Faces

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 276-77, III, line 86, 1922.

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• He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

  William Blake

  Hypocrite, Action, Minutes

  Jerusalem ch. 3, plate 55, l. 60 (1815)

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• Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.

  Willis Regier

  Rivals, Favors, Welcome

  Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.4, U of Nebraska Press

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• I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Half, Fool

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.52, Bantam

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• Most of intellectuals are false prophets, flatterers of the court. The real prophets are the exception and treated badly. How badly they're treated depends on the society. Like in Eastern Europe, they were treated very badly. In Latin America, they were slaughtered.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Latin, Europe

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

  Hesiod

  Guitar, Barns, Literature

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• The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

  Jane Porter

  Merit, Honest, Flattery

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• Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.

  Norm MacDonald

  Would Be, Fool, Flattery

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• If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.

  Roger Sherman

  President, Would Be, Select

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• Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Accord, Wells

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• Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Believe, Enemy, Despair

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Flattery, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Thinking, Doe, Enough

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• I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fool

  George R. R. Martin (2016). “A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.210, Bantam

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• Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

  Walter Raleigh

  Evil, Imperfection, Shadow

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• Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people we honor as prophets, there were the people we condemn as false prophets. But if you look at the biblical record, at the time, it was the other way around. The flatterers of the Court of King Ahab were the ones who were honored. The ones we call prophets were driven into the desert and imprisoned.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kings, Mean, Biblical

  "The U.S. Role in the World". Interview with Harry Kreisler, globetrotter.berkeley.edu. March 22, 2002.

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• Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

  Plutarch

  Character, Men, Self

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• Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

  Epictetus

  Eye, Soul, Crow

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.124, Lulu.com

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