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It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth. — Madame Roland

It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead , in the other case while alive . — Antisthenes

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive. — Lord Byron

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice. — Jean De La Bruyere

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. — Jean De La Fontaine

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers. — Thomas Hobbes

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living. — Antisthenes

Not kings alone
the people, too, have their flatterers. — Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. — George Chapman

In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind. — Epictetus

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. — William Penn

Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Cats, like men, are flatterers. — Walter Savage Landor

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers. — Tacitus

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. — Moliere

Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers. — Norm MacDonald

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] — Tacitus

Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity. — Maurice Druon

Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred. — Albert Einstein

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers. — Michel De Montaigne

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self. — Francis Bacon

great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents, — Charles Dickens

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. — Juvenal

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other. — Napoleon Bonaparte

We are a nation of fence-sitters, face-flatterers and back-biters. — Khushwant Singh

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

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it. — George R R Martin

Flatterers are always to blame for the vices which prevail among mankind — Moliere

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers. — Aristotle.

He realized ... that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious. — Isabel Allende

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. — Alexander Pope

A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher. — George Herbert

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth. — Stendhal