Wise Quotations | Page 5
Wise Quotes from:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Shakespeare
- Confucius
- Benjamin Franklin
- Henry David Thoreau
- Samuel Johnson
- Euripides
- Plato
- Alexander Pope
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- J K Rowling
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Charles Caleb Colton
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Francis Bacon
- Thomas Carlyle
- Baltasar Gracian
- J R R Tolkien
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Aristotle
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Achieve Quotes
Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.