The flatterer's object is to ...

The flatterer\'s object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.
The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.
 Plutarch

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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
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