wisdom Quotes

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

Everyone honors the wise.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds... ...

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.