#wise men

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. ↗

— Robert South

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For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. ↗

— Alcuin

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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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Wise men argue causes; fools decide them. ↗

— Anacharsis

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Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. ↗

— Robert South

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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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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ↗

— John Tillotson

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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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