T Quotes
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“The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.”
“The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.”
“The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.”
“The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.”
“the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.”
Source: Machiavelli, More & Luther
“The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.”
“The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.”
“The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.”
“The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.”
Source: Complete Essays
“The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.”
Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden
“The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.”
Source: Self Analysis
“The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.”
“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.”
“The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.”
Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew
“The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.”
Source: World of Warcraft: Rise of the Horde
“The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.”
“The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.”
Source: The Collected Works
“The wise man will always look past the superficial to what lies beneath. Don't be satisfied with the outward appearance of things, dig deeper and get to the very core. See things as they truly are, not as people would have you see them.”
Source: Defensive Living: The Other Side of Self-Defense
“The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.”
“The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly.”
“The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.”
Source: The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues
“The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.”
“The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.”
Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology
“The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.”
“The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.”
Source: Character
“The wise man’s home is the universe.”
“The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.”
Source: The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe
“The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?”
“The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order. Before putting their States into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were.”
“The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.”
Source: Literature and life, lects
“The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.”
“The wise men were all fools, what to do?”
“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.”
“The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.”
“The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.”
Source: The Analects
“The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.”
“The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.”
“The wise old hag told them to gather up snow and form it into the shape of a daughter.
'They did this. The girl they made was delicate in form, with eyes of snow, and lips of frozen rose petals, and the sharply pointed ears of their people. When they finished sculpting her, they smiled at each other, captivated by her beauty.'
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'When my breath blew across the girl, the spark of life lit within her, and they could see her eyelashes twitch, her tresses shiver. The child began to move. Her little limbs were slender and nearly as pale a blue as the reflection of the sky on the snow she'd been made from. Her hair, a deeper blue, like the flowers that grew nearby. Her eyes, that of the lichen that clung to rocks. Her lips, the red of that fresh-spilled blood.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don't. It's just that simple.”
“The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.”
“The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.”
Source: Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge
“The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.”
“The wise person avoids, to proclaim and insist, its vision and wisdom. Indeed, one's attitude and words show and prove itself that.”
“The wise person dines on something more subtle: He eats the understanding that the named was born from the unnamed, that all being flows from non-being, that the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.”
“The wise person does not become involved in the multiplication of things, knowing that all phenomena are like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, and a shadow.”
“The wise person does not repeat the same mistake that ended him with defeat and sham”
“The wise person does not repeat the same mistake that ended him with defeat and shame.”
“The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"”