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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say ''no.'' I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.
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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
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Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.
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Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
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Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise.
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