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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
