"I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof."
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"Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined in your exertions for the preservation of your liberties. Fllow not the dictates of passion, but enlist yourselves under the sacred banner of reason; use every method in your power to secure your rights."
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"If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this."
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"The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid."
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"The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love."
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"I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion."
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"A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge."
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"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know."
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"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’."
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"Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies."
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"When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous"
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"The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. Market movements are important to him in a practical sense, because they alternately create low price levels at which he would be wise to buy and high price levels at which he certainly should refrain from buying and probably would be wise to sell."
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"Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting."
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"Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan the future. This is why all wise beings encourage us to go beyond the mind into the timeless, boundless transcendence of heart-centered awareness."
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"One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities."
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"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
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"You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox."
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"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."
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"Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it."
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"To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful."
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