Flatterer Quote by Aristotle Download Open image “A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.” — Aristotle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flatterer Friendship Inferiors
Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It… — Aristotle Copy Share
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are… — Aristotle Copy Share
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which… — Moliere Copy Share Image
