賢

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; group of 3rd-century Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians

excellent wisdom

person of lofty virtue and great wisdom

a foolish older brother and a smart younger

Buddhism

image of the Samantabhadra of long life (with either two or twenty arms, usu. on a white elephant)

Proverb

even a clever woman is bound to mess up; a woman's intelligence only goes so far; female sagacity overreaches itself; a clever woman fails to sell a cow

Samantabhadra Contemplation Sutra

Historical term

the Five Good Emperors (of the Roman Empire; Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius)