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Plutarch, How to know a flatterer from a friend. Contents. 1. Self-esteem is the beginning of the flattery, irreligious practice par excellence. 2. The flatterer, this parasite of noble natures, is attentive to the dark side of fortune. 3. It is difficult to distinguish the highly skilled flatterer from the friend. 4.
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Study Guide on Plutarch’s How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend. QUESTIONS ON THE WHOLE WORK. 1. As far as you can tell, who is Plutarch’s intended audience? What is he preparing them for? 2. What are the key similarities and essential differences between flatterers and friends?
How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend. LCL 197: 262-263. Go to page: Find in a Library. View cloth edition. Tools. Show Greek Keyboard. 262. 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.
How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend. 1. Platoa says, my dear Antiochus Philopappus, that everyone grants forgiveness to the man who avows that he dearly loves himself, but he also says that along with many other faults which are engendered thereby the most serious is that which makes it impossible for such a man to be an honest and unbiased ...
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Chaps. 3-5: The theme is the skillful flatterer, who is very close to the friend (chap. 3, 50C; chap. 4, 50EF) and difficult to detect (5lA). The aim is to use the (remaining) differences to unwrap him and lay him bare (chap. 5, 5lD). A number of differences (oux<popal) that are mixed
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.
