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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
He was a wise man who invented beer.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
The secret of the wise man is to learn from the errors of others.
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
A wise man knows when to go 'head and back off so you gotta pick and choose your fights. I know how to pick and choose.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.