#wise man

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

— Euripides

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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 wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult. ↗

— John Churton Collins

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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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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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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. ↗

— Hippocrates

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