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Wisdom Quotes by Juvenal
- Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
- Wisdom is the winner over good luck.
- Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.
- Wisdom overcomes fortune.
- Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)
- Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.
- Wisdom to be sure is the great conqueror of Fortune, giving precepts in its sanctified pages; but we also judge those happy who have learned…
- Who you know will get your foot into the door. What you know will keep your foot out of your mouth.
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- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Saint Augustine