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- Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Everyone is wise until he speaks.
- Irish Proverb
- Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.
- Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
- Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- 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)
- Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Gold is worse poison to a man's soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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