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| In Greece wise men speak and fools decide. |
| by Anacharsis |
| The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. |
| by Epicurus |
| He was a wise man who originated the idea of God. |
| by Euripides |
| A wise traveler never despises his own country. |
| by Carlo Goldoni |
| Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. |
| by Horace |
| The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. |
| by William James |
| Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. |
| by Seneca |
| It is a wise father that knows his own child. |
| by William Shakespeare |
| There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself. |
| by William Shakespeare |
| Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. |
| by Johann von Schiller |
| To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. |
| by Buddha |
| A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. |
| by Chinese Proverb |
| As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish. |
| by Demosthenes |
| There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control. |
| by The Dhammapada |
| It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. |
| by Owen Feltham |
| That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. |
| by Bhagavad Gita |
| 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. |
| by Ben Jonson |
| Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. |
| by Johann Kaspar Lavater |
| Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. |
| by Harriet Ward Beecher |
| The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. |
| by James Oppenheim |
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