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Diogenes being asked of what Beast the biting was most dangerous, answered, if you mean wild Beasts, ’tis the Slanderer’s, if tame one’s, the Flatterer’s.
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Diogene interrogé quelle Bête mordoit le plus dangereusement, répondit: Si vous parlez des Bêtes farouches, c’est le medisant; si des animaux domestiques, c’est le flateur.
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Antigonus hearing a Poet call him Son of Jupiter; My Valet de Chamber, said he smiling, who empties my Close-stool, knows but too well that I am but a Man.
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Antigonus entendant un Poëte flateur l’appeller Fils de Jupiter: Mon Valet de chambre, dit-il en soûriant, qui vuide ma chaise percée sçait trop bien que je ne suis qu’un Homme.
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Whereas Kings are surrounded with Flatterers, and that Horses have no particular regard for them, Carneades used to say, That Princes learn nothing well, but to ride on Horseback.