Do not be deceived by the enemy's trickery or buy into the flatterer's vanity, for the former has set a trap of deceit and the latter has spread the skirt of greed. A fool enjoys praise like a carcass that appears plump when inflated.

Beware of listening to the praise of a speaker

Who has a small benefit from you.

For if one day you do not fulfill his wish,

He will enumerate your faults two hundred times as much.