Wisdom

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

"Do not try to seem wise to others."

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."

"Only the educated are free."

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."

"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."

"It is not that I am brave, but that I know what is not worth fearing."

"If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable."

"Life is long, if you know how to use it."

"No man was ever wise by chance."