If you ask the lion to protect you from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
If we are too wise, we may be equally to blame.[A force de sagesse, on peut être blâmable.]
I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.
How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!
Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.
God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.
Fools and wise folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.
Even strength has to bow down to wisdom sometimes.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on earth as a raven inspirited by a faint scent of carrion?
Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive – so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.
Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly.
