“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
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“Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare
“A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.”
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Source: Meditations
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
“A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.”
“I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.”
“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
Source: The Analects
“To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
“The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.”