He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

凡说自己恨各样的谄媚，并且是诚诚实实说的，他还不知道各样的谄媚。

-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格