Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
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