Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
We give nothing so freely as advice.
When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.
Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.
It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.
The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.
Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]
We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.
There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.
Generosity is the vanity of giving.
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.
Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.
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