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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Miguel de Cervantes
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Miguel De Cervantes
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
John Milton
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
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Michel de Montaigne
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Michel de Montaigne
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Michel de Montaigne
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
William Penn
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
William Penn
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
David Hume
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Aeschylus
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
Aeschylus
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Aeschylus
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Aeschylus
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
Aeschylus
The wisest of the wise may err.
Aeschylus
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
Charles de Montesquieu
