The Master said, 'The superior man is affable, but not adulatory; the mean man is adulatory, but not affable.'

Analects of Confucius · Book 13 13.23

Sanskrit: public domain · English tr. James Legge (public domain)

What it means

Be agreeable without flattering — flattery is not friendship.

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