A Quote by Rumi

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

Rumi

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Rumi
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September 30, 1207 - December 17, 1273

It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.

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If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!

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The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

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O' youth do not disobey the words of the wise. Its better than fortune if the wise-one gives you advice.

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Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

Hesiod

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Edmund Burke

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

Sophia Loren

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.

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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

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Jean de La Fontaine

She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.

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