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Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par l? même disparaît.
Emil Cioran
My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.
Elise Broach
You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to perfection, you'll learn to get better.
Hlovate
Age is no more near than youth To the sceptre and the crown. Vain the wisdom, vain the truth; Do not lay thy rapture down.
George William Russell
That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.
Hesiod
From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.
T.F. Hodge
Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?
Cicero
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Henry David Thoreau
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
Mark Twain
I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.
Charles Yu
There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.
Mayim Bialik
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Hermann Hesse
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
Edward Levi
Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.
Kevin Brooks
If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.
Holly Black
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history
Albert Pike
The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length.
Jane Brereton
That's it. Love makes us all strong.
E.A. Bucchianeri
well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Jodi Picoult