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"Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want."
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"If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection."
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"If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one."
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"May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ."
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"As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness."
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"To please the many is to displease the wise."
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"It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise."
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"We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come."
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"Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind."
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"Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged."
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"In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good."
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"Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good."
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"Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies."
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"They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is."
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"It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior."
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"Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise"
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"Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven."
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"The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity."
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"I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not that wise, but neither do I consider there to be anything approaching adequate evidence for such a god. Why are you in such a hurry to make up your mind? Why not simply wait until there is compelling evidence?"
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