Great Throughts Treasury

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Francis Quarles

A fool's heart is in his tongue; but a wise man's tongue is in his heart.

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Madame Roland, Jeanne Manon Philon, born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skilled direct it.

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Character | Opinion | Wise |

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Philippe Quinault

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

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Charles Simmons

A wise man knows his own ignorance; a fool thinks he knows everything.

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Sayings of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot or Pirqe Aboth) NULL

I grew up among wise man and found that there is nothing better for man than silence. Knowledge is not the main thing, but deeds.

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Better | Character | Deeds | Knowledge | Man | Nothing | Silence | Wise |

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Albert Schweitzer

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red light... The truly wise person is colorblind.

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Character | Light | Wise |

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Shimon HaTzaddik

For his entire life he was in the company of wise men and Of all the things beneficial to one’s body, silence is the best. [paraphrase]

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Body | Character | Life | Life | Men | Silence | Wise |

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Robert Southey

A good man and a wise man may, at times, be angry with the world, and at times grieved for it; but no man was ever discontented with the world if he did his duty in it.

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Character | Duty | Good | Man | Wise | World |

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Jonathan Swift, pen names, M.B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff

A wise man should have money in his head, not in his heart.

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Character | Heart | Man | Money | Wise |

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Jonathan Swift, pen names, M.B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff

The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

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Jonathan Swift, pen names, M.B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.

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