Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent law of laws.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of god.

When the wise man points at the moon, the idiot looks at the finger.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.