Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
He that is rich is wise.