La Rochefoucauld §laroch_329: We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery --we only dislike the method.
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_329) · external_aligned
We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery --we only dislike the method. ["{But} when I tell him he hates flatter{ers}, He says he does, being then most flattered." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar {,Act II, Scene I, Decius}.]
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: First edition, Paris 1665 — Barbin imprint
- critical_edition: Pleiade edition — Truchet (Gallimard, 1964)
- translation: Tancock translation (Penguin Classics, 1959)
- republication: Project Gutenberg — Maxims
- republication: Internet Archive — multiple editions