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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

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A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell! Thomas Fuller

Wise Man Fool Paradise Hell

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Thomas Huxley

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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. Epicurus

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I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it. Hedy Lamarr

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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. John Keats

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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. John Milton

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. Sonia Sotomayor

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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone. T. B. Joshua

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You can be very wild and still be very wise. Yoko Ono

You Wise Wild Still Very

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

Wisdom Wise Better Own Others Misfortunes Than Your

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. Alphonse de Lamartine

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A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once. Apollonius of Tyana

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. Aristotle

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When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to Heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to his children. You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves. Casey Affleck

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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. Euripides

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Wise men make more opportunities than they find. Francis Bacon

Wisdom Wise Opportunities Men Find More Wise Men Make Than

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. John Patrick

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To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. Marcus Aurelius

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