#wise man

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ↗

— David Hume

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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

— Aeschylus

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