Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.
I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.