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This is a line from Shakespeare's poem Seven Ages of Man, that famously begins, " All the world's a stage / And all the men and women merely players".
The poem is describing one man's stages in life:
1st - infant
2nd - schoolboy
3rd - lover
4th - soldier
5th - justice
6th - old man
7th - second childhood or extreme old age
This line refers to the fifth stage where the man is a justice, or judge. Wise saws are traditional, well understood legal rulings and modern instances are new judgments.
Also it can mean that that they are wise sayings and modern thoughts
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