“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
“Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.”
“I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.”
“A wise man can't seriously make himself anything, only a fool makes himself anything.”
“He flatters me because he knows I am flattered by him flattering me. And that flatters him. So when he flatters me, he is really flattering himself.”