“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
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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.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
