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“Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)”
― Barry Fetter, Wisdom of the Ages At Your Fingertips: 6,500 Quotes from over 1,000 of History's Greatest Minds

“One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.”
― Barry Fetter, Wisdom of the Ages At Your Fingertips: 6,500 Quotes from over 1,000 of History's Greatest Minds

“Anger is momentary madness. Horace (B.C. 65-8)”
― Barry Fetter, Wisdom of the Ages At Your Fingertips: 6,500 Quotes from over 1,000 of History's Greatest Minds

“Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)”
― Barry Fetter, Wisdom of the Ages At Your Fingertips: 6,500 Quotes from over 1,000 of History's Greatest Minds

“The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly. Lu Yen (fl. 800 A.D.)”
― Barry Fetter, Wisdom of the Ages At Your Fingertips: 6,500 Quotes from over 1,000 of History's Greatest Minds

“A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practised in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way?”
― Barry Fetter, Wisdom of the Ages At Your Fingertips: 6,500 Quotes from over 1,000 of History's Greatest Minds