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¶ Plutarch observes that the friend is pleasing to be around because he is a friend, while the flatterer studies and practices to seem pleasing for an end that is contrary to friendship and contrary to the best interests of his victim.
The essay, at the close, digresses into a disquisition on frank speech (παρρησία) that might easily have been made into a separate treatise, but which is developed naturally from the attempt to distinguish the genuineness of a friend from the affectation of a flatterer.
Plutarch, How to know a flatterer from a friend. Contents. 1. Self-esteem is the beginning of the flattery, irreligious practice par excellence. 2. The flatterer, this parasite of noble natures, is attentive to the dark side of fortune. 3. It is difficult to distinguish the highly skilled flatterer from the friend. 4.
How to Tell a Flatterer. if Truth is a thing divine, and, as Plato a puts it, the origin “of all good for gods and all good for men,” then the flatterer is in all likelihood an enemy to the gods and particularly to the Pythian god.
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How to Tell a Flatterer with pleasures. And just because graciousness and usefulness go with friendship (which is the reason why they say that a friend is more indispensable than fire and water), the flatterer thrusts himself into services for us, striving always to appear earnest, unremitting, and diligent.
