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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
