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Georg Lichtenberg
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject
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Henry Mencken
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight
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Winston Churchill
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see
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Abraham Lincoln
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday
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Baltasar Graci�n y Morales
The wise does at once what the fool does at last
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Anatole France
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion
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Lao-Tze
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own
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Jean Moli�re
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation
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William Shakespeare
So wise so young, they say, do never live long
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William Shakespeare
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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