It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.