#flattery — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #flattery, aggregated by home.social.
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@rameshgupta
Nato is already dead. It died in the moment when Europeans could no longer rely on US help in case of an attack. They can't, so they need to and are acting already as if Nato doesn't exist.
@copter_chief#Trump #Putin #Germany #NATO #stupid #flattery #Stupidity #blackmail #greed #US #Republicans #Democrats
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@rameshgupta
Nato is already dead. It died in the moment when Europeans could no longer rely on US help in case of an attack. They can't, so they need to and are acting already as if Nato doesn't exist.
@copter_chief#Trump #Putin #Germany #NATO #stupid #flattery #Stupidity #blackmail #greed #US #Republicans #Democrats
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@rameshgupta
Nato is already dead. It died in the moment when Europeans could no longer rely on US help in case of an attack. They can't, so they need to and are acting already as if Nato doesn't exist.
@copter_chief#Trump #Putin #Germany #NATO #stupid #flattery #Stupidity #blackmail #greed #US #Republicans #Democrats
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@rameshgupta
Nato is already dead. It died in the moment when Europeans could no longer rely on US help in case of an attack. They can't, so they need to and are acting already as if Nato doesn't exist.
@copter_chief#Trump #Putin #Germany #NATO #stupid #flattery #Stupidity #blackmail #greed #US #Republicans #Democrats
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve. In a word, the man in a high post is never regarded with an indifferent eye, but always considered as a friend or an enemy. For this reason persons in great stations have seldom their true characters drawn till several years after their deaths. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunity of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.
It is therefore the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons, and to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age into factions.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-06-26), The Spectator, No. 101More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83215…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddision #assessment #biography #condemnation #criticism #critics #factions #flattery #greatman #greatperson #greatness #history #loyalists #perspective #posterity #praise #divisiveness
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could do us no harm.
[Si nous ne nous flattions point nous-mêmes, la flatterie des autres ne nous pourroit nuire.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶152 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #adulation #blandishment #flattery #praise #selfcongratulations #selfdeception #selfesteem #selfglorification #selfpraising #selfregard #sycophancy
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Power multiplies flatterers, and flatterers multiply our delusions by hiding us from ourselves.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 25 (1822)More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #asskissing #bootlicker #brownnose #coterie #deception #delusion #fawning #flatterers #flattery #lickspittle #power #selfabsorption #selfapproval #selfawareness #selfconfidence #selfdelusion #selfesteem #selfglorification #selfknowledge #selfregard #sycophant #toady #toadying #yesman
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The cringing Train of Pow’r, survey;
What Creatures are so low as they!
With what obsequiousness they bend!
To what vile actions condescend!
Their Rise is on their Meanness built,
And Flatt’ry is their smallest Guilt.Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1741 ed.)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/78…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichardsalmanac #asskisssing #bowing #condescension #courtiers #favor #flattery #flunkies #guilt #hangerson #insincerity #lackeys #obsequiousness #power #praise #servility #subservience #sycophant #kowtowing #followers
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The cringing Train of Pow’r, survey;
What Creatures are so low as they!
With what obsequiousness they bend!
To what vile actions condescend!
Their Rise is on their Meanness built,
And Flatt’ry is their smallest Guilt.Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1741 ed.)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/78…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichardsalmanac #asskisssing #bowing #condescension #courtiers #favor #flattery #flunkies #guilt #hangerson #insincerity #lackeys #obsequiousness #power #praise #servility #subservience #sycophant #kowtowing #followers
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The cringing Train of Pow’r, survey;
What Creatures are so low as they!
With what obsequiousness they bend!
To what vile actions condescend!
Their Rise is on their Meanness built,
And Flatt’ry is their smallest Guilt.Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1741 ed.)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/78…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichardsalmanac #asskisssing #bowing #condescension #courtiers #favor #flattery #flunkies #guilt #hangerson #insincerity #lackeys #obsequiousness #power #praise #servility #subservience #sycophant #kowtowing #followers
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The cringing Train of Pow’r, survey;
What Creatures are so low as they!
With what obsequiousness they bend!
To what vile actions condescend!
Their Rise is on their Meanness built,
And Flatt’ry is their smallest Guilt.Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1741 ed.)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/78…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichardsalmanac #asskisssing #bowing #condescension #courtiers #favor #flattery #flunkies #guilt #hangerson #insincerity #lackeys #obsequiousness #power #praise #servility #subservience #sycophant #kowtowing #followers
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Friday, June 27, 2025
Over 20,000 Russian soldiers prosecuted for refusing to fight in Ukraine — Ukraine to receive 20 new Rheinmetall Ermine vehicles — here’s what they can do — North Korea likely to send more troops to Russia by August — Trump wants to slash war crimes investigation funds … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/friday-june-27-2025/
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A quotation from Josh Billings
The love that a man gains by flattery, is worth just about az mutch az the flattery is.
[The love that a man gains by flattery is worth just about as much as the flattery is.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/billings-josh/76858/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #acclaim #admiration #adoration #celebrity #compliments #flattery #love #praise
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Believe not that Men have an Esteem for thee only because they say so.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 1816 (1727)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #admiration #compliments #esteem #flattery #praise #respect
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A quotation from Moliere:
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ALCESTE: Finding on every hand base flattery,
Injustice, fraud, self-interest, treachery …
Ah, it’s too much; mankind has grown so base,
I mean to break with the whole human race.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/moliere/73138/#quote #quotes #quotation #badbehavior #corruption #deceit #evil #flattery #humanity #injustice #insincerity #selfinterest #selfishness #treachery #misanthropy
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A quotation from Moliere:
«
ALCESTE: Finding on every hand base flattery,
Injustice, fraud, self-interest, treachery …
Ah, it’s too much; mankind has grown so base,
I mean to break with the whole human race.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/moliere/73138/#quote #quotes #quotation #badbehavior #corruption #deceit #evil #flattery #humanity #injustice #insincerity #selfinterest #selfishness #treachery #misanthropy
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A quotation from Moliere:
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ALCESTE: Finding on every hand base flattery,
Injustice, fraud, self-interest, treachery …
Ah, it’s too much; mankind has grown so base,
I mean to break with the whole human race.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/moliere/73138/#quote #quotes #quotation #badbehavior #corruption #deceit #evil #flattery #humanity #injustice #insincerity #selfinterest #selfishness #treachery #misanthropy
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A quotation from Moliere:
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ALCESTE: Finding on every hand base flattery,
Injustice, fraud, self-interest, treachery …
Ah, it’s too much; mankind has grown so base,
I mean to break with the whole human race.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/moliere/73138/#quote #quotes #quotation #badbehavior #corruption #deceit #evil #flattery #humanity #injustice #insincerity #selfinterest #selfishness #treachery #misanthropy
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Continuing on with the series on Plutarch's great text How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend, here's a video on his discussion of how flatterers imitate frankness of speech, a key element of friendship
https://youtu.be/caMnuljr3AA
#Video #Plutarch #Flattery #Friendship #Frankness