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.]
Generosity is the vanity of giving.
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.
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.
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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.
The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.
The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.
It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.
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