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The wisest of the wise may err.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Precaution is better than cure.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.