Wisdom

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

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.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

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

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Silence is safer than speech.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

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

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.