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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.] 
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
 Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains 
and are laughed to scorn.
 [Lat., read more 
 Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains 
and are laughed to scorn.
 [Lat., Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus,
  Et perdunt operam et deridentur tupiter.] 
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is read more
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
 Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet,
 To think how mony consels sweet,
  How mony lengthened, sage read more 
 Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet,
 To think how mony consels sweet,
  How mony lengthened, sage advices,
   The husband frae the wife despises. 
 Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
 Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.  
 Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
 Hath often stilled my brawling discontent. 
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say, this is what we know about read more
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say, this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
 In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are 
the safest.  
 In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are 
the safest. 
 And may you better reck the rede,
 Than ever did th' adviser.  
 And may you better reck the rede,
 Than ever did th' adviser.