# How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend is issued as a public court-and-house ethic against yes-men

Date: 100

## The fact

An essay distinguishes flatterer from friend. [Plutarch](/people/plutarch)’s documented role is: He wrote the essay. Courts remain the setting; he did not abolish them. Do not store a unique friendship coefficient. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Plutarch's documented role is: He wrote the essay. Courts remain the setting; he did not abolish them.

## Context

Elite households and courts. Named others on the file: Received elite addressees. The public setting is the file around 0100-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend is issued as a public court-and-house ethic against yes-men. The setting of How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend is issued as a public court-and-house ethic against yes-men is the public file around 0100-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

SEP/IEP independently list the essay among Moralia. Official: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Plutarch, ethics (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plutarch/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Plutarch, moral essays (https://iep.utm.edu/plutarch/; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Plutarch, ethics (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plutarch/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Plutarch, moral essays (https://iep.utm.edu/plutarch/; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Plutarch, ethics (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plutarch/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

Anti-flattery cohesion. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A public anti-flattery ethic is a cohesion path. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

Essay, not a statute. Established: a sourced public record of How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend is issued as a public court-and-house ethic against yes-men under 0100-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend is issued as a public court-and-house ethic against yes-men under 0100-01-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not store a unique friendship coefficient. Mixed effects of How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend is issued as a public court-and-house ethic against yes-men are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend is issued as a public court-and-house ethic against yes-men. Naming Plutarch does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0100-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Plutarch: https://factrail.ai/people/plutarch

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://iep.utm.edu/plutarch/
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plutarch/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/plu-flatterer