Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
Not to care for any of his belongings before caring that he himself should be as good and as wise as possible, not to care for the city’s possessions more than for the city itself, and to care for other things in the same way.
Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.
Again, it is for the sake of the soul that goods external and goods of the body are eligible at all, and all wise men ought to choose them for the sake of the soul, and not the soul for the sake of them.
In speaking about someone’s character, we do not say that he is wise or comprehending, but that he is gentle or moderate.
A wise person can want nothing better from life than to pay back the wrong that has been done him.
In a wise community a wise man would not seem foolish!
