#wise man

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. ↗

— Epicurus

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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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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God. ↗

— Euripides

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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet. ↗

— Chanakya

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I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world. ↗

— Chris Kattan

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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. ↗

— Akhenaton

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ↗

— Plato

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