Famous quotes containing the word sages:
“Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure,
There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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