Its innate habit of seeking out beauty, in the form of flowers, and of ignoring anything that might cause it woe makes it "wiser far than human seer" and leads the philosopher-poet to want to follow its example.
But it doesn't make it wise.
But that doesn't make it wise.
That a measure is well-intended does not, however, make it wise.
People are loath to give up their mobile phones, even when engaged in sports risky enough to make it wise to use a helmet, like skiing, snowmobiling, motorcycling or bicycling.
But the fact that an operation such as that mounted primarily by the British and French in Libya proved (in the end) to be possible and helped produce the intended result does not make it wise, reflective of the longer-term British, French or US national interest, or even morally right.
"If nothing else, the size of the market alone makes it a good move, while any new regulation of news providers following the Leveson Inquiry could make it wise to have interests in non-news content," wrote Bardsley in a later post at the beginning of this year.
That it's not impossible those are Stephen Jackson and DeShawn Stevenson, respectively, and you're welcome doesn't make it wise or fair.
As Alexander Hamilton remarked in Federalist 75, "The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous...to the sole disposal of... a president of the United States".
