The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
The ease of my burthens, the staff of my life.[translation by John Willis Clark]Relief of my burdens.[translation by John Ormsby][Alivio de mis cargas.]
The Doors of Wisdom are never shut.
The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice.
The better part of wisdom is a sublime prudence, a pure and patient truth that will receive nothing it is not sure it can permanently lay to heart.
The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you’re seventeen you know everything. When you’re twenty-seven if you still know everything you’re still seventeen.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.[translation by John Willis Clark]The ass bears the load, but not the overload.[translation by John Ormsby][El asno sufre la carga, mas no la sobrecarga.]
That there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
So wise so young, they say do never live long.
Slowly the evening puts on the garments held for it by a rim of ancient trees.[Der Abend wechselt langsam die Gewänder, die ihm ein Rand von alten Bäumen hält.]
