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Wise Man Quotes

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

John Churton Collins

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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Michel de Montaigne

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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

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Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.

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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

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The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Felix Frankfurter

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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Andrew Carnegie

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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Michel de Montaigne

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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

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Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

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The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

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