Wise Man Quotes
Timeless lines on quiet, hard-won wisdom.
One line reframes rivalry entirely, arguing the only worthwhile competition for a wise person is against their own past self.
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
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.
A wise man, when he writes a book, sets forth his arguments fully and clearly; an enlightened ruler, when he makes his laws, sees to it that every contingency is provided for in detail.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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