Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent law of laws.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
''If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.''
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.
A word to the wise is infuriating.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of god.
When the wise man points at the moon, the idiot looks at the finger.
You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.