Sage Quotes
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Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved.
Lao Tzu
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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.
John Milton
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The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.
Lao Tzu
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To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.
Eliphas Levi
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From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.
Yehuda Levi
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The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.
Lao Tzu
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Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.
Lao Tzu
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One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
Hermann Hesse
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Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the people, he must put himself behind them. In this way, though he has his place above them, the people do not feel his weight; though he has his place before them, they do not feel it as an injury. Therefore all mankind delight to exalt him, and weary of him not.
Lao Tzu
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The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.
Baltasar Gracian
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The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.
Lao Tzu
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The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.
Lao Tzu
