“What more our folly shows,
Than while we others seek, ourselves to lose?”
John Hoole (1727–1803) British translator
Book XXIV, line 7
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
Book I, fable 9, line 1.
Fables
“What more our folly shows,
Than while we others seek, ourselves to lose?”
John Hoole (1727–1803) British translator
Book XXIV, line 7
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
Ismail ibn Musa Menk (1975) Muslim cleric and Grand Mufti of Zimbabwe.
4 April 2016 https://twitter.com/muftimenk/status/716954516843790336 <br class="br">Twitter
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet
Variant: Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Kate Bornstein (1948) American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist
My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity (2013), p. 6
“What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example, advice.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru
May 11
Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
“It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (1889), p. 5
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan