Advice Quote by Samuel Johnson

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive…

— Joseph Addison

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

— Woodrow Wilson

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

— Thomas Browne

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

— Ronald Rolheiser

“It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is…

— Thomas à Kempis

The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus…

— John Calvin

The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to…

— Theodor Adorno

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.

— Warren Farrell

For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that…

— Lillian B. Rubin