wisdom Quotes

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.