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A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Minna Antrim


The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz


A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Moliere


The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Duke Ellington


A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

Emma Watson


Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.

Gifford Pinchot


Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

Morihei Ueshiba


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James


Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Diogenes


We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.

James McGreevey


One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

John Green


What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh


If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

William Blake


For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

Lao Tzu


The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Paulo Coelho


When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill


There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Marquis de Sade


The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Sophia Loren


Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

Thomas Aquinas


Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Aesop


Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

Swami Sivananda


Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Percy Bysshe Shelley


Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

Lucinda Franks

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