#flatterer

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

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#life

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. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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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. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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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

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One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. ↗

— Theophrastus

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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really. ↗

— David Hockney

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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. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door. ↗

— Plutarch

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