“Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 71
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“Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with.”
“I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.”
“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.”
“People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.”
“Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.”
“The walls of Athens are impregnable, Their firmest bulwarks her heroic sons.”
“Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.”
“Mankind's troubles flicker about, and you'll nowhere see misery fly on the same wings.”
“Thou are a better counsellor to others Than to thyself:—I judge by deeds not words.”
“For stubborness, if one be in the wrong, Is in itself weaker than naught at all.”
“He has the wisdom of an old man, but his body is at its prime”
“I, of set will, speak words the wise may learn, To others, nought remember nor discern.”
“Justice turns the scale For those to whom through pain At last comes wisdom's gain.”
“Prolific truly is the impious deed; Like to the evil stock, the evil seed.”
“I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.”
“The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas.”
“In the great philosophy of Brahma, such violent turns of the scale are quite unknown.”
“We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves.”
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