A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.
Everyone honors the wise.
In a very real sense, we are the authors of our own lives.
To have grown wise and kind is real success.
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Govern wisely, and as little as possible
The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.
This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!
When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.
The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people.
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.
I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.
People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth!
The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.
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