"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work."
-Plato
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"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
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"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half."
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"Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences."
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"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom."
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"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."
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"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."
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"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."
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"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."
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"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
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