This wonder we find in hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend. How many would die did not hope sustain them how many have died by hoping too much.
This wonder we find in hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend. How many would die did not hope sustain them how many have died by hoping too much.
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.
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
False flatterer, Hope, away!
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant and of all tame, a flatterer.
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.
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.
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.
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
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