#wise men

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. ↗

— Alan Paton

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For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. ↗

— Plutarch

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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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