wisdom Quotes

Excellence, then, is about making choices, finding a middle ground, which is determined by reason, as a wise person would decide.

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.