Depends Quote by Roger Ascham

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

— Anonymous

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

— Epictetus

He is the wise man who has by perfect living gained the instinct of rightness by which he guides himself, whether in thought or…

— Nilakanta Sri Ram

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of…

— Horace

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is…

— Confucius

A man who is acutely aware of having something to lose which he has learned to care for; a man in some degree rich…

— Anonymous

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations…

— Thomas Hobbes

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

— Epicurus

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only…

— Ben Jonson

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic…

— Chanakya

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

— Anonymous