Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection.

Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection.

If you can't love, learn how to flatter.

If you can't love, learn how to flatter.

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.

Fools grow without watering.

Fools grow without watering.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit

Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.