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Plato
The wisest have the most authority
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Thomas Fuller
A wise man turns chance into good fortune
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Voltaire
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool
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Voltaire
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad
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Benjamin Franklin
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book
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Marcus Cicero
A wise man does nothing by constraint
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Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future
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Bernard Shaw
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience
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Samuel Johnson
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain
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Samuel Johnson
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him
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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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