"Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves; and the officious monitor is persecuted with hatred, not because his accusation is false, but because he assumes that superiority which we are not willing to grant him, and has dared to detect what we desired to conceal."
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"Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree."
"If you are out of trouble, watch for danger."
"The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs."
"Advice is judged by results, not by intentions."
"We may give advice, but not the sense to use it."
"Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples."
"When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them."
"Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom."
"People do not want advice - they want corroboration."
"I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there."
"I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters."
"A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good."
"Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another."
"The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself."
"When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see."
"None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others."
"A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability"
"Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity."
"No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted."