#wise men

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen. ↗

— Pindar

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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. ↗

— Robert South

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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. ↗

— Alcuin

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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Wise men argue causes; fools decide them. ↗

— Anacharsis

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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#grab #ignore #like #men #possessions

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ↗

— John Tillotson

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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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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#common people #men #people #speak #style