أن يُغوى المرءُ بالخطباء كما يُغوى الملكُ بالمتملّقين.

“To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.”Thomas Hobbes — The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, (1750)