Wisdom Quotes · Page 68
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“Young people suffer less from their faults than from the prudence of the old.”
“He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.”
“Too much straightforwardness is foolish against a shameless person.”
“Poverty is the lack of many things, but avarice is the lack of all things.”
“Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.”
“There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.”
“The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.”
“Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.”
“The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're made.”
“In Paradise they no more look awry; and though they make anew, they make no lie.”
“The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it.”
“The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning.”
“There was once a little man called Niggle, who had a long journey to make.”
“Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.”