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“Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.”

Men Doe Law Wise Angry Trifles

Book:Job, a Comedy of Justice

Source: Job, a Comedy of Justice

“Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.”

People Life Stills Wisdom Law Wise Wise People

Author:Aristophanes

“Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.”

Knows Men Law Heaven Wise Fate Yield

Author:Euripides

“The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.”

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.”

States Law Wise Fate Mark Preserves Fixed

Book:An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory

Source: An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory

“Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.”

Law Nations Liberty Wise Defense Noble Chains Mail Restraint

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.”

Ifs Should Made States Would Be Law Political Social Moral Wise Sacrifice Effects Citizens Holy All Time Political Systems Dissipation

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure permanence of union; and if they would have more faith in this all would go well. To tie together by human law what God has tied together by passion, is about as wise as it would be to chain the moon to the earth lest the natural attraction existing between them should not be sufficient to prevent them flying asunder.”

Source: An Autobiography: By Herbert Spencer

“To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what's at stake.”

People Firsts Form Law Taken Wise Reflection Constitution Stakes

Author:Jean-Paul Marat

“When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.”

People Law Wise Revolution

Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.”

May Law Wise Customs

Book:Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel

Source: Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel

“A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.”

Law Purpose Wise Judging Crafts

Author:Robert Southey

“Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.”

Men Firsts Lasts Law Wise Fashion Taste Foolish Suits Fantastic Tyrants Compelled

Author:Blaise Pascal