Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.
There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.
People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.
That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.
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