A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him
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Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow
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He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
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Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words. We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind.
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With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
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