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Wisdom Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.
- Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.
- The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.
- Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
- Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
- We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
- However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
- It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
- As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much…
- It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
- It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
- Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
- The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.
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