Wisdom Quotes · Page 37
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“There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.”
“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.”
“Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the same age, so that does not matter in the least.”
“Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.”
“Now is the time for drinking, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.”
“Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.”
“If the world should break and fall on him, it would strike him fearless.”
“Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.”
“To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium.”
“The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.”
“Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you.”
“The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation.”
“Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.”
“Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again?”