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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 is a man's self.

— Francis Bacon

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

— Hesiod

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

— James Boswell

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

— Charles Eastman

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

— Joseph Hall

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

— Mark Twain

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

— Euripides

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