wisdom
“To ridicule philosophy is truly to philosophize.”
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”
“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, as, to be hated, needs but to be seen; yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace.”
“The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters.”
“Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.”
“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”
“The beginning of wisdom is to know what you do not know.”
“He who speaks evil of another, seldom speaks a good word of himself.”
“It is better to imitate wisely than to invent foolishly.”
“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”
“A liar should have a good memory.”
“No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.”
“Keep cool, but care.”
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”