#wise man

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. ↗

— Dean Inge

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He was a wise man who invented beer. ↗

— Plato

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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. ↗

— Epictetus

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Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born. ↗

— King Solomon

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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick. ↗

— Sophocles

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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

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