Charles Caleb Colton - Wise Quotes

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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Charles Caleb Colton
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.

Charles Caleb Colton
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

Charles Caleb Colton
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Charles Caleb Colton
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

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The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

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If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.

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A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.

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It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

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There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads.

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It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.

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Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest... he should be swallowed up.

Charles Caleb Colton