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• We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
• It is impossible to love and to be wise. — Francis Bacon
• Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. — Aeschylus
• Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. — Aesop
• Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be… — Allan Bloom
• Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it,… — Akhenaton
• To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. — Edmund Burke
• Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. — Alan Alda
• Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be… — Ardeth Kapp
• Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will… — Benjamin Rush
• Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. — Muhammad Ali
• No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise. — Martin Luther

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