"Great wits are sure to madness near allied." — John Dryden

It is never too late to be wise.

Source: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

I think, therefore I am.

Source: A Discourse on Method (1637), Part IV

All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Source: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things

Source: Walden (1854)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

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