There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer; for there is no such flatterer as a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Francis Bacon Quotes

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and...

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and...

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and...

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and...