Wise Man Quotes
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It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
Euripides
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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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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 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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For the wise man, every day is a festival.
Plutarch
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The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
Socrates
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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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A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.
Confucius
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The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.
Lao Tzu
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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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Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
Plutarch
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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