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" Quotes and Sayings About wise men

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Express Common Wise People
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The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Wise Fools Pity Speak
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Wise Speak Fool Say
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Wise Find Opportunty Wisdon
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The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

People Wise First Living
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Controversy Fools Know Men
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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Decide Fools Greece Men
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Able Commend Him Man
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Beyond Both Either Existence
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Benefit Doubt Give Keep
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For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Err Human Least Men
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In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

Days Moses Prophets Counted
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Adversity Course Embrace Wise
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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Beauty Idiots Wise men
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

Gifts Bribes Rich men Executed
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Experience Prophecy Wise Men
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Not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of. It leads not to unification but to fragmentation. It does not bring grace; it destroys the soul.

The life Simplicity Multiplicity The wise
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

Philosophers Wise men Are indifferent Paralysis
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Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.

Wise men Are instructed By reason Less understanding
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