I climbed the grass-clad mountain, And my gaze swept far and wide For the rosy lights of a little room, Where I thought my mother sighed: My boy has gone for a soldier, He sleeps not day and night; But my boy is
wise, and may yet return, Though the dead lie far from sight.
When Zarathustra heard the
wise man thus speak, he laughed in his heart: for thereby had a light dawned upon him.
And the unjust is good and
wise, and the just is neither?
"The sign says that you are
wise," remarked Scraps to the donkey.
The
wise man gratifies every appetite and every passion, while the fool sacrifices all the rest to pall and satiate one.
IT IS a trivial grammar-school text, but yet worthy a
wise man's consideration.
But far more dangerous are the others, who began when you were children, and took possession of your minds with their falsehoods, telling of one Socrates, a
wise man, who speculated about the heaven above, and searched into the earth beneath, and made the worse appear the better cause.