#wise man

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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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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He was a wise man who invented beer. ↗

— Plato

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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

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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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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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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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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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