Sentence examples similar to invite flattery from inspiring English sources

5 In fact, a mortal cannot exalt himself and draw near to the gods unless he cast away the delights of wealth and bodily pleasure, and invite his soul, not by flattery, by indulging its desires, by allowing it a perverse gratification, but by exercising it in labour, in patience, in virtuous precepts and in meritorious deeds.

To live with a cat is to invite challenge and growth; not for us those shaggy sycophants, paid for their flattery with Winalot.

In an extraordinary central scene, King Aegisthus invites his subjects to criticize his rule freely; the fulsome and hyperbolic flattery that results is a grimly comical depiction of the abuse of the concept of freedom in a place where it didn't exist.

Invited to France by President Emmanuel Macron, who obviously despises him, but wants to see if some flattery can manipulate Trump into not destroying the earth's climate, Donald Trump celebrated Bastille Day by telling Macron's wife, Brigitte, that she had a nice body.

And flattery.

Likewise flattery.

Nor was it flattery.

So flattery kicked in.

May tried flattery.

Feedback (aka flattery).

Least susceptible to flattery.