A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own.
Even for the wise, the desire for glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside.
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
Examine men's ruling principles, even those of the wise, what kind of things they avoid, and what kind they pursue.
Dare to be wise, begin!
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A wise man will be master of his mind. A fool will be its slave.
The wise man is rich
Those who live without madness are not as wise as they think.
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.
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
May your vision be new at every moment. The wise man is he whom everything astonishes.
How wise must one be to be always kind.
The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.
A wise and prudent king knows how to make use of even the least of his subjects.
The superior man seeks to perfect the admirable qualities of men, and does not seek to perfect their bad qualities. The mean man does the opposite of this.
I will not be afflicted at men's not knowing me; I will be afflicted that I do not know men.
They became wise too late.
Truly there is no wise man. Who does not know the dark.
A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.
So as the old rule, to know a fool from a wise man 'Mitte ambos nudos ad ignotos, et videbis'.
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license. Thus his words have respect to his actions, and his actions have respect to his words; is it not just an entire sincerity which marks the superior man?
Life is a festival only to the wise.
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.
Of the experience I have of myself, I find enough to make me wise, if I were but a good scholar.
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