We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. [Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la vertu.]

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.

On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles, Qui le suivirent toujours, Tant qu'il marcha devant elles.