#wise man

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult. ↗

— John Churton Collins

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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. ↗

— Will Durant

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A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

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It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. ↗

— Herodotus

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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. ↗

— Horace

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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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