Chance Quote by Henry David Thoreau

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.…

— Henry David Thoreau

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A…

— Henry David Thoreau

The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.

— Pythagoras

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

— John Webster

The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

— Epicharmus of Kos

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

— Plato

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

— Juvenal

Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of…

— William Ernest Hocking

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

— Aeschylus

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

— Michel de Montaigne