French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their 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.
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.