"If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst."
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"Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires to be honored at all. He allows you to know them but not to comprehend them. No one must know the extent of his abilities, lest he be disappointed. No one ever has an opportunity of fathoming him entirely. For guesses and doubts about the extent of his talents arouse more veneration than accurate knowledge of them, be they ever so great."
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"Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are."
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"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."
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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
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"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."
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"To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil."
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"Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again."
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"My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology."
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"A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool."
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"Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind."
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"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."
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"Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition."
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"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
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"It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary."
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"When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple."
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"Truth is what stands the test of experience."
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"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see."
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"It takes a long time to become young."
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"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."
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