"A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher."
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"There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob."
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"I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous."
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"A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority."
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"My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me."
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"O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!"
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"With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law."
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"The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people."
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"I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing 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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"Who are a little wise the best fools be."
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"Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb."
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"Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them."
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"For never, never, wicked man was wise."
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"No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise."
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"In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons."
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"For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use."
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"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope."
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"Nature conservation is not a luxury, it is a necessity! It not wise or sensible to continue to destroy your environment if you want to have a sound, stable, healthy and prosperous Egypt whether now or in the future."
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"The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own."
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"Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season."
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