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Tacitus Quotes about Flattery

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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.

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People, Flattery, Depends

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

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Enemy, Flattery, Kind

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

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Flattery, Labor, Servility
Cornelius Tacitus (1858). “The History. Germany. Agricola. Dialogue on orators”, p.1

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