The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
The wise are above books.