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For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self ; and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.

Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains ... - Page 312
by Francis Bacon - 1819
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Style and Proportion: The Language of Prose and Poetry

Josephine Miles - English language - 1967 - 232 pages

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Reading for Understanding

Maurice B. McNamee - American literature - 1968 - 980 pages

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The International Thesaurus of Quotations

Rhoda Thomas Tripp - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1970 - 1112 pages

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A Concordance to the Essays of Francis Bacon

Elizabeth S. Wrigley - English language - 1973 - 416 pages

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Eros: An Anthology of Friendship

Alistair Sutherland, Patrick Anderson - Literary Collections - 1975 - 448 pages

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The Australian Quarterly, Volume 21

Australia - 1949 - 802 pages

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Widerspiegelung und Wirkung: eine pragmatische Analyse der Essays von ...

Jörg Rublack - English essays - 1979 - 174 pages

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The Essays

Francis Bacon - Fiction - 1985 - 292 pages

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Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays

Phillip Lopate - Literary Collections - 1989 - 344 pages

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Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship

Michael Pakaluk - Philosophy - 1991 - 292 pages

...giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend, and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer, as is a man's self; and there is no such...a man's self, to a strict account, is a medicine, sometime, too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of morality, is a little flat, and dead. Observing...

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