"It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]"

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Source : "Armide". 1686.

Philippe Quinault

#Wise Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Sage Quotes

“Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions.”

Source : Deborah Eisenberg (2016). “Twilight of the Superheroes”, p.36, Pan Macmillan
“Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.”
“Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.”
“A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.”
“At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.”
“If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill”
“There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.”
“Hey G-Town Gal: turn your underwear inside out! Then u only have to do laundry every 2 weeksâ€”saves on detergent & trips to Laundromat!”

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