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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.

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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

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If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.

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A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

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Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

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To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

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A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

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Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.

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With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

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The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.

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As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

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As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

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Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

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Wise men speak because they have something to say

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