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How to Tell a Flatterer. only to help him; and ought not by hurting him to kill friendship, but to use the stinging word as a medicine which restores and preserves health in that to which it is applied. Wherefore a friend, like a skilled musician, in effecting a transition to what is noble and beneficial, now relaxes and now tightens a string ...
The flatterer ingratiates himself by means of feigned agreeableness and perverts our natural self-love to make us believe what is not true about ourselves. He is, in short, the enemy of truth. A friend, on the contrary seeks to profit you by speaking the truth.
Are you willing, therefore, in short, that we arrange a flatterer according to depravity, but a friend according to virtue, bidding farewell to pleasure and pain? for neither is friendship without pleasure, nor flattery without pain, but each is mingled with each, pleasure with friendship, and pain with flattery.
1 de ene. de 1996 · "Plutarch to Prince Philopappus on how to tell a Flatterer from a Friend" published on 01 Jan 1996 by Brill.
HOW TO TELL A FLATTERER FROM A FRIEND (QUOMODO ADULATOR AB AMICO INTERNOSCATUR)INTRODUCTION. Plutarch's essay on flatterers is addressed to C. Julius Antiochus Philopappus, a descendant of the kings of Commagene, whose monument still stands on the Museum Hill at Athens. He was a patron of art and literature, and on friendly terms with Plutarch.a.
Suggested use: This study guide includes a few questions and observations about Plutarch’s How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend. Among possible uses, one could consider these comments while reading the work; or one could use them as starting points for a classroom discussion.
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