A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and sleep. – Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others? – Galileo Galilei
