I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.
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