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• In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

  George Santayana

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• The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

  Gabriel Marcel

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• The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

  Edgar Watson Howe

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• Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

  Edward Young

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• Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

  Epicurus

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• It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

  Xenophanes

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• He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

  Euripides

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• The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

  Euripides

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• Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

  Douglas Bader

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• A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishes himself for what he thinks.

  Jason Zebehazy

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• Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

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• A fool may give a wise man counsel.

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• A fool may meet with good fortune, but the wise only profits by it.

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• Fools ask what’s o’clock, but wise men know their time.

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• A wise man may learn of a fool.

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• A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

  Thomas Hobbes

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• It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

  Jerome Cady

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• For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

  Origen

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• Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

  Will Durant

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• Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

  Giraldus Cambrensis

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