Today's Quote Wednesday, June 18, 2025 on wisdom

Those who wear the truth, even when it's rough, walk lightly. Those wrapped in lies fear every breeze. Silk may fool the eye, but the skin knows better. Moral: truth may sting, but it never betrays - and the wise prefer the thorn of truth to the feather pillow of lies, at least they know where they've been pricked. Never forget: it's better to stumble naked in the truth than to strut wrapped in an elegant lie.
- Lao Zen Scacciapensieri

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Never show your fear to the wolf.
- Proverb

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The wise one fears the warrior who can do everything, and even more so the one who can do nothing but promises much. For the first destroys with his hands, the second with illusions. Both leave ruins: one visible, the other deep. The true path is to beware of excess-whether of zeal or of emptiness. And if you must choose, remember: the silence of the useless is more precious than the clamor of the harmful.
- Lao Zen Scacciapensieri

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The wise do not rush to close the circle: they observe the question and let time answer. For not everything in a hurry knows where it's going . . . Watch the ant and its diligent work: it knows that every crumb has its worth. So should you: do not despise what is small, nor rush what is being born. The calm step knows the path, and sometimes, it is silence that brings the answers words have lost.
- Lao Zen Scacciapensieri

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It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
- Ann Landers

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He who thinks that the stars are always there, stops looking up. And ends up missing the dawn. Because nothing is owed to us, not even what shines. Love, friendship, presence: they must be looked at, chosen, cared for . . . every day, as if it were the first. Remember: what you don't caress with your gaze, slowly moves away, like a boat left without a rope.
- Lao Zen Scacciapensieri

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