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Wisdom

«He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.»
«He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.»
«He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.»
Author: Epictetus | About: Men, Wisdom | Keywords: grieve, grieving, rejoices, wise man
«Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend»
Author: Michelangelo | About: Heart, Heaven, Soul, Wisdom | Keywords: affirm, heavenward, lend, perishes, soars
«He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books»
«He is wise that is wise to himself.»
Author: Euripides | About: Wisdom | Keywords: wise to
«He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggles like a swimmer against the stream.»
Author: Proverb | About: Wisdom | Keywords: contends, contingencies, contingency, swimmer
«He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap»
Author: Publilius Syrus | About: Wisdom | Keywords: mishap, Mishaps
«Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper.»
«He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Wisdom

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