"Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes."
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"The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable."
"The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right."
"Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?"
"Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear."
"Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools."
"The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws."
"Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted."
"Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience."
"To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education."
"So wise so young, they say, do never live long."
"There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself."
"When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again."
"The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst."
"I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing."
"Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms."
"As you are old and reverend, you should be wise."
"Full of wise saws and modern instances."
"Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably."
"Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!"