Flattery and hypocrisy...

The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire.

Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,
but its smoke becomes visible in the end.


- Rumi

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Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994