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- He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.
- Latin
- Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.
- C. C. Colton
- What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.
- Norman Douglas
- Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
- Author Unknown
- Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
- Miguel De Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
- Author Unknown
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