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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.


Jonathan Swift
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.


Francis Bacon
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The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Chanakya
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
William Dean Howells
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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Thomas Huxley
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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.


William Penn
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.


Plato
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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.


David Hume
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.


William Shakespeare
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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.


Thomas Fuller
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Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.


Horace
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.


William Blake
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.


Will Durant
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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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Thomas Aquinas
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