Flattery
We should not accept flattery. Great is the contempt of a flatterer when he sees how easily we fall for his sometimes rather crude strategems. Let us not be as bribed slaves, but let us develop the pride and independence of lords of spirit, for whom flattery does not exist. Nothing lowers and destroys a person so much as his acceptance of flattery. Certainly, one who loves flattery is a slave of yesterday. A person guilty of flattery, or one who accepts it, can never become a close co-worker. (LHR I, p 102)
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