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“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”
Euripides
“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.”
Euripides
“Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.”
Euripides
“Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.”
Euripides
“Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.”
Euripides
“Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.”
Euripides
“He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.”
Euripides
“The good and the wise lead quiet lives.”
Euripides
“A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.”
Stendhal
“Our true passions are selfish.”
Stendhal
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
Honore de Balzac
“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.”
Honore de Balzac
“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.”
Moliere
“Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.”
Moliere
“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.”
Aesop
“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”
Lord Byron
“As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
“A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.”
Sophocles
