“Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer provide bad examples.”

—  François de La Rochefoucauld, book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Les vieillards aiment à donner de bons préceptes, pour se consoler de n'être plus en état de donner de mauvais exemples.
Maxim 93.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

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