#wise man

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness. ↗

— Robert Cecil

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The fool wanders, a wise man travels. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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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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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. ↗

— Aristotle

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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. ↗

— Washington Allston

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

— Aeschylus

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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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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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