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It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?