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Wise Man Quotes by Epicurus
- Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control…
- The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.
- Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
- The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a…
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- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. — Francis Bacon
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- It is best for the wise man not to seem wise. — Aeschylus
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- To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only… — Thomas Carlyle
- Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. — Andrew Carnegie
- The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise… — Giacomo Casanova