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• The wise man seeks everything in himself; the ignorant man tries to get everything from somebody else.
• A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
• It is a foolish man who tests the depth of the river with both feet at the same time.
  Often this person tests just one river....
• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own.
  He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a teacher. -- Ben Johnso...
• Woman was taken out of man -- not out of his head, to rule over him
  or out of his feet, to be trampled under by him; but out of his side, to be equal to him -- under his arm, that he might protect her, and near his heart that he might love her....
• Mountain under heaven: the image of Retreat. Thus the superior man keeps the inferior man at a distance, Not angrily but with reserve.