He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
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.
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
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