The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
A person who is wise does nothing against his will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all knowledge.
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
Wise men are instructed by reason men of less understanding, by experience the most ignorant, by necessity the beasts, by nature.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
... for until that God who rules all the region of the sky ... has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed....
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
I prefer the wisdom of the unlearned to the folly of the loquacious
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
In the common people there is no wisdom, no penetration, no power of judgment
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
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