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Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.
[Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]
Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.
[Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]
A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice.
A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice.
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability
Know when to speake; for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings.
Know when to speake; for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such
as have only to execute them.
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The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such
as have only to execute them.
[Fr., C'est une importune garde, du secret des princes, a qui
n'en que faire.]
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
No one wants advice -- only corroboration.
No one wants advice -- only corroboration.
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't read more
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
