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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.