Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
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