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Georg Lichtenberg
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery
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Denis Diderot
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter
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Edmund Burke
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not
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Edmund Burke
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings
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Jean de La Fontaine
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him
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Jean Moli�re
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy
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Joseph Addison
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener
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Bernard Shaw
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering
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Samuel Johnson
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present
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Fran�ois La Rochefoucauld
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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