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Quotes About Wisdom

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.
~ la rochefoucauld ii
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age we live in.
~ la rochefoucauld iv
The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.
~ la rochefoucauld iv
It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.
~ la rochefoucauld ix
The gratitude of most men is only a secret desire to receive more favours.
~ la rochefoucauld ix
There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.
~ la rochefoucauld v
The surest way to be cheated is to fancy ourselves more cunning than others.
~ la rochefoucauld v
A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.
~ la rochefoucauld v
Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.
~ la rochefoucauld v
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.
~ la rochefoucauld vi
To be a great man one should know how to profit by every phase of fortune.
~ la rochefoucauld vi
There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.
~ la rochefoucauld vi
It is far easier to know men than to know man.
~ la rochefoucauld vi
Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.
~ la rochefoucauld vii
There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.
~ la rochefoucauld vii
Old fools are greater fools than young ones.
~ la rochefoucauld viii
The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.
~ la rochefoucauld viii
The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.
~ lacordaire henri dominique
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
~ Lactantius
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.
~ Lactantius
There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
~ Lactantius
Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu