Seneca Quote

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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

Aeschylus

• Man

He was a wise man who invented beer.

Plato

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Xenophanes

• Man

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Abraham Lincoln

• Man

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Victor Hugo

A wise man does not try to hurry history.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

• Man
• Wisdom

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

• Man

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

Epictetus

• Man

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Michel de Montaigne

• Philosophy
• Wisdom
• Learning

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Voltaire

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

King Solomon

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Sophocles

• Mind

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Euripides

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Aeschylus

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

• Wisdom

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Sophocles

• War

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Herodotus

• Misfortune
• Fortune

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

Aeschylus