Edmund Burke

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.

Edmund Burke

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Edmund Burke

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Winston Churchill

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Agatha Christie

The wise musician is that who play what he can master.

Duke Ellington ( Adaptation )

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Sophocles

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