"Good advice is something a man gives..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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“Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.”
“Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.”
“The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.”
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“He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.”
“Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never. That's the best advice I could ever give someone.”
“My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing, as is evidenced by the fact that you're reading a very sloppy and poorly researched book.”
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“That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.”
“What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?”
“The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.”