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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. – Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire
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
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. – Francis Bacon
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods. – Victor Cousin
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. – Robertson Davies
Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed. – Edward Young
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise seek what they sought. – Baslo
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. – Benjamin Franklin
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog fewer when pursued by a mad woman only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. – Robertson Davies
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. – Voltaire
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. – Epictetus
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot. – Albert Einstein
If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just! – Mehmet Murat ildan
It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, 'He's so big, we can never kill him.' But David looked at the same giant and thought, 'He's so big, I can't miss him.' – Dr. Dale E. Turner
It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction – Abraham Lincoln
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience. – Samuel Johnson
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith." – Benjamin Franklin
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. – John Patrick
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. – Leo Buscaglia
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. – Claude T Bissell
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise. – Alden Nowlan
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. – William Shakespeare
The good and the wise lead quiet lives. – Euripides
The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks. – La Rochefoucauld
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. – Claude Levi-Strauss

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