Flattery, or rather condescension, is not always a vice, it is more often a virtue, especially in young people. The kindness with which a man treats … - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Flattery, or rather condescension, is not always a vice, it is more often a virtue, especially
in young people. The kindness with which a man treats us attaches us to
him; one does not give way to him in order to deceive him, one does so
in order not to make him sad, not to return him harm for good.