"A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect."
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"Beware of advice-even this."
"Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive."
"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."
"In a crisis, give help first and then advice."
"The best advice my mom ever gave me was that you have to talk about your emotions. If something upsets me, she'd say, 'Get mad about it; it's healthy for you,' and I could feel like: Good; now it's over...next!"
"Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them."
"We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm."
"Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud."
"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."
"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions."
"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."
"Ask advice of him who governs himself well."
"No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving."
"Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."
"It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say."
"Take advice, but don't take orders."
"No one wants advice - only corroboration."
"If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist."
"The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him."