"Many People give advice, but those who receive it gratefully are few. Still rarer are those who follow such advice. Once a man passes the age of thirty, there is no one to advise him. When advice ceases to reach him, he becomes willful and selfish. For the rest of his life he adds impropriety to foolishness until he is beyond redemption."
JochoYamamoto
Hagakure
quoted in
Yukio Mishima
The Way of the Samurai
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