Wise Man Quotes
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These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.
Epictetus
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It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
Euripides
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The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he knows that time is without end.
Lao Tzu
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
Sophocles
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May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.
Socrates
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The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.
Lao Tzu
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Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
Plutarch
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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides
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Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.
Michelangelo
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Silence is an answer to a wise man.
Plutarch
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The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.
William Blake
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The fascination of trifles obscures the good,” says the Wise Man. It is difficult in the midst of much doing and seeing to keep alive and present to the deepest reality, to the really real. And so the monk goes apart…
Basil Pennington