From the Evils of Mixing with People
32 - Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr narrated to me, he said: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, he said: Naṣr ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr said: "Whoever mixes with people flatters them, and whoever flatters them acts ostentatiously toward them." (1).
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