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 1 Pref  |       and that that time was no wise proper for any serious matter,
 2 Praise|         appellation of sophi or wise, chose rather to be called
 3 Praise|      practice of our nobles and wise men who, throwing away all
 4 Praise|         appearance and title of wise men and walk like asses
 5 Praise|       appear to the world to be wise men and Thales, we’ll even
 6 Praise|     even call them morosophous, wise fools.~Nor will it be amiss
 7 Praise|       and dotage. In fine, that wise man whoever he be, if he
 8 Praise|        noose of wedlock, if, as wise men should, he did but first
 9 Praise|      witchcraft of folly, which wise Nature did of purpose give
10 Praise|     those cares that distract a wise man; he is not the less
11 Praise|        desiring to be accounted wise that he delights to be worshiped
12 Praise|      her to that she will in no wise bear, according to that
13 Praise|       not invented by the seven wise men but myself, and that
14 Praise|       with the least: for among wise princes there is either
15 Praise|       between them, it is in no wise firm nor very long lived;
16 Praise|        and a beast instead of a wise man, a child instead of
17 Praise|       noise,” what use of those wise men, I pray, that are so
18 Praise|      refused the appellation of wise, and returning it back to
19 Praise|    delivered his opinion that a wise man should abstain from
20 Praise|  interprets as an argument of a wise orator and one that was
21 Praise|         so degenerate, and that wise Socrates’ children, as one
22 Praise|       offices of life. Invite a wise man to a feast and he’ll
23 Praise|      the fox and hedgehog. What wise man’s oration could ever
24 Praise|        be so condemned by those wise philosophers. For what is
25 Praise|        name more proper? To the wise man, who partly out of modesty
26 Praise|   discourage from anything? The wise man has recourse to the
27 Praise|         living.~And here if any wise man, as it were dropped
28 Praise|     truly prudent man not to be wise beyond his condition, but
29 Praise|          inasmuch as we judge a wise man from a fool by this,
30 Praise|        the Stoics remove from a wise man all disturbances of
31 Praise|        denies, and takes from a wise man all affections whatever,
32 Praise|     much good to them with this wise man of theirs; let them
33 Praise|         the only rich, the only wise, the only free man, and
34 Praise|     beast is this their perfect wise man. But tell me pray, if
35 Praise|          But I am weary of this wise man, and therefore I’ll
36 Praise|     Cato, Cassius, Brutus, that wise man Chiron, being offered
37 Praise|      world if all men should be wise; to wit it were necessary
38 Praise|        first found out, as that wise king in Plato argues touching
39 Praise|        any man to attempt to be wise beyond his condition. And
40 Praise|         of Nature, who is in no wise imperfect, unless perhaps
41 Praise|    Pallas? In a word he was too wise, and by that means ran wide
42 Praise|   divines. And now tell me, you wise fool, with how many troublesome
43 Praise|     fools before their crabbish wise men, whom yet they keep
44 Praise|      the others, for that these wise men speak to princes about
45 Praise|        his discourse; while the wise men’s are those two tongues
46 Praise|         reason they avoid those wise men, because they fear lest
47 Praise|        which, if it came from a wise man’s mouth might prove
48 Praise|        condition of any of your wise men with that of this fool.
49 Praise|       the picture of this great wise man.~And here again do those
50 Praise|   anyone in all mankind that is wise at all hours, or has not
51 Praise|         a thing it is not to be wise, that on the contrary men
52 Praise|          whereas if some scurvy wise fellow should step up and
53 Praise|        and the like—should this wise man chat to the people,
54 Praise|       no need to wish, and that wise man, who, being got loose
55 Praise|       what a dearth there is of wise men, if yet any one be to
56 Praise|        much as one-quarter of a wise man, among them all.~For
57 Praise|         carry the reputation of wise men and hunt after that
58 Praise|       like; so highly does this wise man value the approbation
59 Praise|      will the censure of so few wise men be against so great
60 Praise|      himself a triumph. And now wise men laugh at these things
61 Praise|     upon themselves as the only wise men and all others as shadows.
62 Praise|    weigh it he would if he were wise, he would neither be able
63 Praise|        always an enemy to those wise men, and on the contrary
64 Praise|      these others hit properly, wise men “born in the fourth
65 Praise|        is the reason that those wise men have so little to do,
66 Praise|       the sad scruples of those wise men touching rapine and
67 Praise|    shall sooner get them than a wise man. If a man’s in love
68 Praise|       fools and are afraid of a wise man and fly him as they
69 Praise|        shut their doors against wise men and admit anything sooner.
70 Praise|      done by money; which, as a wise man condemns it, so it takes
71 Praise|     dotterel and sot than to be wise and made mouths at.” And
72 Praise|     full of fools.” Again, that wise preacher that said, “A fool
73 Praise|      changes as the moon, but a wise man is permanent as the
74 Praise|       are fools and the name of wise only proper to God? For
75 Praise|        he is a fool that is not wise, and every good man according
76 Praise|    according to the Stoics is a wise man, it is no wonder if
77 Praise|    Chapter 7, “The heart of the wise is where sadness is, but
78 Praise|        malice to a fool, when a wise man the while thinks no
79 Praise|       ye,” says he, “seem to be wise, let him be a fool that
80 Praise|        be a fool that he may be wise.” And in Luke, Jesus called
81 Praise|       abhors and condemns those wise men and such as put confidence
82 Praise|       destroy the wisdom of the wise, and cast away the understanding
83 Praise|   mystery of salvation from the wise, but revealed it to babes
84 Praise|    which he opposes to the word wise men. To this appertains
85 Praise| Pharisees” than woe to you, you wise men?), but seems chiefly
86 Praise|         only pardoned, those of wise men never. Whence it is
87 Praise|    pitiful shadows. For as this wise man pitied and bewailed