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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old,_x000D_"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold;_x000D_Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess_x000D_Than the defect; better the more than less;_x000D_Better like Hector in the field to die,_x000D_Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.

Anti-Zionists, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are counters, not coins; that the wise man looks through them to reality. This counsel many anti-Zionists seem to have neglected. They are especially disturbed by the two nouns nationalism and commonwealth, and by the adjective political. And yet these terms on examination are not at all upsetting.

Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

Look at people in your life as “practice.” The way you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.

To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't.

Happiness doesn't come and go, what comes and goes is your attunement to happiness.

Where knowledge ends... feeling and imagination begin.

Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another.