wisdom Quotes

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Hatred is settled anger.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

No sane man will dance.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.