"The wise man’s home is the universe."
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"Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it."
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"I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'"
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"They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death."
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"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."
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"Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it."
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"We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk of life."
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"It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible."
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"All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!"
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"To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good."
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"Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves."
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"I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources."
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"For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death."
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"A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy."
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"If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top."
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"As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that."
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"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill."
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"There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving."
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"Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle."
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"A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows."
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