"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
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"He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living."
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"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself."
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"You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway."
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"Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past."
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"The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself."
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"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship."
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"The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping."
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"To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know."
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"May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure."
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"Wise thinkers prevail everywhere."
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"A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her."
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"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness."
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"It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results."
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"The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you."
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"Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you."
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"The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise."
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"Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a way to make people generally more wise and more skilful than they have been in the past, I believe that we should look for it in medicine. It is true that medicine as it is currently practiced contains little of much use."
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"Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived."
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"The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age."
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