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He that won't be counseled can't be helped
One can advise comfortably from a safe port
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice
No one can give you better advice than yourself
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end
Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery
Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind
Whatever advice you give, be short
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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