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Quote by Jose Bergamin
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the princip

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. – Jose Bergamin

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A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. – Jose Bergamin

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The extreme limit of wisdom, thats what the public calls madness. – Jean Cocteau

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Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. – Nick Clooney

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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. – John Keats

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Action should culminate in wisdom. – Bhagavad Gita

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