1 For the Council of Vocations knows in its great wisdom where you are needed by your brother men, better than you can know it in your unworthy little minds.
2 We think that in the wisdom of women the Golden One had understood more than we can understand.
3 No single one can possess greater wisdom than the many Scholars who are elected by all men for their wisdom.
4 We need all our time, we need the work rooms of the Home of the Scholars, we want the help of our brother Scholars and their wisdom joined to ours.
5 We had not thought of coming here, but our legs had carried our wisdom, and our legs had brought us to the Uncharted Forest against our will.
6 It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.
7 Thus did all thought, all science, all wisdom perish on earth.
8 This advice was not followed by the Carthaginian senate, but its wisdom was well seen later, when the opportunity to act upon it was gone.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXVII. 9 Never did any man by the most splendid achievements gain for himself so great a name for wisdom and prudence as is justly due to Junius Brutus for feigning to be a fool.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. 10 And, truly, Servius was wanting in wisdom when he imagined that the sons of Tarquin would contentedly resign themselves to be the sons-in-law of one whom they thought should be their subject.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV. 11 And although there might arise sometimes a courageous pope, such as Sixtus, yet neither fortune nor wisdom could rid him of these annoyances.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER XI — CONCERNING ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCIPALITIES 12 But the scanty wisdom of man, on entering into an affair which looks well at first, cannot discern the poison that is hidden in it, as I have said above of hectic fevers.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER XIII — CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED SOLDIERY, AN... 13 Therefore it must be inferred that good counsels, whencesoever they come, are born of the wisdom of the prince, and not the wisdom of the prince from good counsels.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER XXIII — HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE AVOIDED 14 I loved my school, and the fine faith the children had in the wisdom of their teacher was truly marvellous.
15 But such transformation calls for singular wisdom and patience.