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A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.

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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

– AristotleRate it:

Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.

– Cosino DeGregrioRate it:

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

– Walter RaleighRate it:

Heed not the flatterer?s fulsome talk, He from thee hopes some trifle to obtain; Thou wilt, shouldst thou his wishes baulk, Ten hundred times as much of censure gain.

– Saadi ShiraziRate it:

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.

– Francis QuarlesRate it:

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 BaconRate it:

When the flatterer pipes, the devil dances.

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