
“5779. Wise Men learn by other Men's Harms; Fools, by their own.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
“5779. Wise Men learn by other Men's Harms; Fools, by their own.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Source: The Roving Mind (1983), Ch. 25
“We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
Book I, Ch. 25
Attributed
“The wise man is joyful, happy and calm, unshaken, he lives on a plane with the gods.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LIX: On Pleasure and Joy
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Arren)
Regarding the treatment of former Confederate soldiers. In Richmond, Virginia (April 4, 1865), as quoted in Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War https://archive.org/download/incidentsanecdot00port/incidentsanecdot00port.pdf (1885), by David Dixon Porter, p. 312
1860s, Tour of Richmond (1865)