Sun Tzu Quotes, Wise Quotes, Clever Quotes

When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And even though you have wise counsellors, none will be able to lay good plans for the future. Thus, while we have heard of blundering swiftness in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged.

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Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

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A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

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The wisest have the most authority.

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In solitude, where we are least alone.

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the shell must break before the bird can fly.

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The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage.

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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

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He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

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What the wise seek is in themselves

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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

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Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

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Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

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The desire to reach hearts is wise

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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

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Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts

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Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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