#wise man

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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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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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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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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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. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. ↗

— Herodotus

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

— Jerome Cady

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