We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.Michel de Montaigne
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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As plants are suffocated and drowned with too much moisture, and lamps with too much oil, so is the active part of the understanding with too much study.
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