When a hundred men call a wise man a fool, then he becomes a fool.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Stars are dusts from wise men.
Beloved and wise men are not hypocrites
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
Wise men speak only of what they know
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
They listened more than they talked, but that was the way of wise men and women.
Fools look to tomorrow; Wise men use tonight
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
