Wise Man Quotes
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It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.
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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.
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Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war.
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A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.
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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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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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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
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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 wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Never met a wise man, if so its a woman.
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The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.
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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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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 most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
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A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.
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As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'
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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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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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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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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
