“Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.”

“That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.”

“The wise man looks into space and does not regard the small as too little, nor the great as too big, for he knows that, there is no limit to dimensions.”

“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.”

“Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish… Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.”

“The pedant interprets the simplicity and the humility of the wise man as ignorance.”

“A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.”

“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”

“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.”

“Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom
To believe in the good in man.”