“Man. God. Roarke.An interesting and flattering lineup.”
“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
“The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.”
“The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.”
“there is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself”
“To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.”