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Wise Quotes by Edmund Burke
- To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
- Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have…
- The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is…
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson