Great Throughts Treasury

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Related Quotes

Gnaeus Naevius

In extremity, they are wise too late.

Character | Wise |

Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity, say the wise men.

Character | Imagination | Men | Opportunity | Wise |

Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

Character | Man | Nothing | Wise |

José Joaquín de Olmedo, fully José Joaquín de Olmedo y Maruri

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

Character | Man | Wise | Happiness |

William Penn

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man.

Character | Judgment | Knowledge | Man | Wise |

Publius Syrus

A wise man dreads an enemy, however insignificant.

Character | Enemy | Man | Wise |

Philemon NULL

In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

Adversity | Better | Character | Man | Prosperity |

Publius Syrus

Prosperity begets friends; adversity proves them.

Adversity | Character | Prosperity |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When fate is adverse, a wise man can always strive for happiness and sail against the wind to attain it.

Character | Fate | Man | Wise | Fate | Happiness |

Publius Syrus

Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.

Advice | Character | Receive | Wise |

Publius Syrus

When you love you are not wise: when you are wise you do not love.

Character | Love | Wise |

Francis Quarles

The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. If virtue accompanies beauty it is the heart's paradise; if vice be associate with it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fools furnace.

Beauty | Character | Heart | Man | Paradise | Soul | Thought | Virtue | Virtue | Wise | Beauty | Thought | Vice |

Pierre Louis Roederer

True purity of taste is a quality of the mind; it is a feeling which can, with little difficulty, be acquired by the refinement of intelligence; whereas purity of manners is the result of wise habits, in which all the interests of the soul are mingled and in harmony with the progress of intelligence. That is why the harmony of good taste and of good manners is more common than the existence of taste without manners, or of manners without taste.

Character | Difficulty | Existence | Good | Harmony | Intelligence | Little | Manners | Mind | Progress | Purity | Refinement | Soul | Taste | Wise |

Theodor Reik

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Character | Love | Man | Will | Wise |