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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims
oneself
others
sage
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
Francis Bacon
sage
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.”
Jean de La Bruyere
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Les Caractères
Man
sage
wealth
Examine men's ruling principles, even those of the wise, what kind of things they avoid, and what kind they pursue.”
Marcus Aurelius
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Meditations
sage
From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own.”
Publilius Syrus
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Sentences
others
sage
vice
A wise man will be master of his mind. A fool will be its slave.”
Publilius Syrus
sage
Even for the wise, the desire for glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside.”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
sage
The wise man is rich”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
sage
wealth
Those who live without madness are not as wise as they think.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
madness
sage
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
Man
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Poet
sage
How wise must one be to be always kind.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
good
sage
The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.”
Jean de La Bruyere
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Les Caractères
sage
solitude
world
Dare to be wise, begin!”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Epistles
sage
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A wise and prudent king knows how to make use of even the least of his subjects.”
Jean de La Fontaine
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Fables
king
Prudence
sage
A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.”
Publilius Syrus
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Sentences
sage
The wise are sparing both of time and words.”
Jean de La Fontaine
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Fables
sage
time
May your vision be new at every moment. The wise man is he whom everything astonishes.”
André Gide
sage
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
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Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Human nature
sage
Truly there is no wise man. Who does not know the dark.”
Hermann Hesse
sage
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
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