It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

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

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

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

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

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

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

Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

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