To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?
The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.
No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.
Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.
