Napoleon Bonaparte:

I am surrounded by flatterers, but I know their worth.

— Napoleon Bonaparte Early Modern

French Emperor and conqueror

Attributed, suggesting his awareness of the sycophancy around him.

Uncertain, c. 19th Century

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