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Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

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The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

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Coincidences are spiritual puns.

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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

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The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

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Wisdom comes with winters

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Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

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An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."

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Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

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Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

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