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Look twice before you leap.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.