If we look into communities and divisions of men, we observe that the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, guides the conversation, and gives measure to society.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


If we look into communities and divisions of men, we observe that the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, guides the...

If we look into communities and divisions of men, we observe that the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, guides the...

If we look into communities and divisions of men, we observe that the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, guides the...

If we look into communities and divisions of men, we observe that the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, guides the...