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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

The years teach much which the days never know.