Wisdom Quotes · Page 4
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“Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.”
“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”
“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.”
“Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go.”
“Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.”
“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”
“Do you suppose that you can do the things you do now, and yet be a philosopher?”
“Little is needed to ruin and upset everything, only a slight aberration from reason.”
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!”
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
“Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York.”