Quote#Wisdom
A man was wise if heavy and tardy, like all phlegmatic temperaments;…
Quote byOscar Levy · 1867–1946
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Revival of Aristocracy (1906), describing the state of Germans in the 19th century, pp. 82-83..
English (original)
A man was wise if heavy and tardy, like all phlegmatic temperaments; learned if he wrote books with one eye on the public and the other on his colleague.
— Oscar Levy
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