Quotes About Wisdom

Good Heaven, friend, do not trouble yourself. He will be a clever man who catches me in this way. I know all the cunning tricks and subtle devices which women use to deceive us, and how one is fooled by their dexterity, and I have taken precautions against this mischance. She whom I am marrying possesses all the innocence which may protect my forehead from evil influence.

You have believed very wrongly, and I will be bound that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.

Si vous songez à nourrir votre esprit, / C'est de viande bien creuse, à ce que chacun dit.

Les gens de qualité savent tout, sans avoir jamais rien appris. People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

WHAT, WILL THE star which is bent on driving me to despair allow me no time to breathe? Am I to see, through their mutual understanding, my watchful care and my wisdom defeated one after another? Must I, in my mature age, become the dupe of a simple girl and a scatter-brained young fellow?

Así va el mundo. Muchos adquieren opinión de doctos, no por lo que efectivamente saben, sino por el concepto que forma de ellos la ignorancia de los demás.

Let us not apply to ourselves the points of general censure; let us profit by the lesson, if possible, without assuming that we are spoken against.

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

My Lord Jupiter knows how to sugarcoat the pill.

You see him laboring to produce bons mots.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

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Now, shut up, old boy,' the Captain said kindly, as he put down his leather-covered malacca stick.

That man is so old, he's older than his birthday.

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Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.