A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Flattery is counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶158 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]
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