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The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.

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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

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The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

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At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

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The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.

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For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

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Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

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I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

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Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

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Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

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The wise man once said invest young

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Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.

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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

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The wise man knows he doesn't know.

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