flatteries

Meaning

of Flattery

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There is no other way for securing yourself against flatteries except that men understand that they do not offend you by telling you the truth but when everybody can tell you the truth, you fail to get respect. Niccolò Machiavelli

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. Thomas Jefferson

I wish Christianity were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the. Benjamin Franklin