Old men love to give good advice to console themselves for not being able to set bad examples.[Les vieillards aiment à donner de bons préceptes, pour se consoler de n’être plus en état de donner de mauvais exemples.]
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
Let every man mind his own business.[translation by John Willis Clark]Let everyone hold his tongue.[translation by John Ormsby][Y todo el mundo calle.]
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
It is wrong to put a sheepskin under your shirt when you know that you are going to get a licking. It is better to retire swiftly to a secret place and weep over your bad conduct until the storm blows over.
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.[Il est plus aisé d’être sage pour les autres que de l’être pour soi-même.]
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Advice? You’re too old to be given it and too young to take it…
A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.
