#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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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

#expense #flatterer #him #listens #lives

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

— David Hockney

#generally #i #know #only #paint