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Wisdom Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
- Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
- The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
- The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
- As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man…
- Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
- Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything…
- I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives…
- Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.
- Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
- For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.
- The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.
- It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
- If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.
- It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
- God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.
- We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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