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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon - Essays /

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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

Even for the wise, the desire for glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus /

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If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

Examine men's ruling principles, even those of the wise, what kind of things they avoid, and what kind they pursue.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

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Dare to be wise, begin!

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles /

Dare to be wise, begin!

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A wise man will be master of his mind. A fool will be its slave.

Publilius Syrus /

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The wise man is rich

Quintus Horatius Flaccus /

Those who live without madness are not as wise as they think.

François de La Rochefoucauld /

The Sage will bear the name of insane, and the Just the name of unjust, if in their search for Virtue they go beyond what is sufficient.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles /

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays /

May your vision be new at every moment. The wise man is he whom everything astonishes.

André Gide - Fruits of the Earth /

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How wise must one be to be always kind.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach /

The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

A wise and prudent king knows how to make use of even the least of his subjects.

Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

They became wise too late.

Marcus Tullius Cicero /

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Truly there is no wise man. Who does not know the dark.

Hermann Hesse - In the fog /

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A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

So as the old rule, to know a fool from a wise man 'Mitte ambos nudos ad ignotos, et videbis'.

Francis Bacon /

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A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work.

The wise are sparing both of time and words.

Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

Of the experience I have of myself, I find enough to make me wise, if I were but a good scholar.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

I do not withdraw the wise man from the category of man, nor do I deny to him the sense of pain as though he were a rock that has no feelings at all.

Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium /

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Baltasar Gracian

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