Wisdom Quotes

"The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have" "The fox and the grapes" "Men act like brutes only when they do not understand what is true or good." "Beware of the man who does not return your blow; he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself." "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." "Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair" "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." "Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool." "Associate with people who are likely to improve you." "Life, if well lived, is long enough." "No man was ever wise by chance." "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." "Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions but through uprightness and wisdom" "I would rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia" "It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man" "You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours." "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding" "We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us"