A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
