Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
The traitor rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
To enter upon rulership of a country but not preserve its scholars will result in the downfall of the country.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: 1. Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; 2. Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; 3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; 4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; 5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; 6. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
