Wise Man Quotes
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It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any.
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The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
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If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.
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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
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A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ...the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.
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A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.
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If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.
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The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Money is the wise man's religion.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.
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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
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When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.
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I call wise man who, while he is innocent , endures insults and blows with a patience equal to its strength.
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A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.
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But as the wise man said, life’s too short to drink bad wine. Regret is a terrible vintage.
