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“Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.”

People Kings Flattery Giver Receiver Adulation

Book:The Works of Edmund Burke

Source: The Works of Edmund Burke

“Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.”

People Kings Flattery Flatterer

Author:Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

“As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they thesame education, they might prove like other men. But, flattered from their cradles, their hearts are corrupted, and their heads are turned, so that they seem to be a species by themselves.... Flattery cannot be too strong for them; drunk with it from their infancy, like old drinkers, they require dreams.”

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“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.”

Ifs Kings Flattery Flatterer Vermin

Author:Michel de Montaigne