#wise man

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

— Victor Hugo

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It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins. ↗

— Jerome Cady

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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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A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half. ↗

— Jeff Cooper

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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Anna Jameson

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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool. ↗

— Diogenes of Sinope

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Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

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