Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. ”

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ”

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it. ”

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. ”

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ”

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice. ”

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self. ”

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. ”

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice. ”

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly. ”