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Wisdom Quotes · Page 67
Glean insights from the greatest minds in history with timeless wisdom quotes. From Socrates to modern sages, these words offer guidance for living well.
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“This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.”
“The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.”
“Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments.”
“Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.”
“A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.”
“The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.”
“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
“Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
“For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be loved needs only to be seen.”
“All human things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
“A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.”
“Look round the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.”
“Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.”
“A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.”
“Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well timed.”
“Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.”