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- Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
- Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
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