Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Great necessities call out great virtues.
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.