Wise

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The wisest have the most authority
A wise man turns chance into good fortune
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book
A wise man does nothing by constraint
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience
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
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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