This is his home, truly, but he is neither a great nor a wise man; only and simply Eckhof the actor.
Truly, your uncle, the bishop, was a wise man; he drove out folly with folly.
My enemies triumph, and he who a short time since was called the wise man of the age, the Virgil of France, is nothing but a scoundrel!
His singular remark would have betrayed him to a more suspicious, a more worldly-wise man, who would have perceived from it the possibility of some danger, from which Jaschinsky was seeking to extricate himself.
But I fear, alas, that fools will condemn me, because I have sought to write as a wise man.
Go not after the world," said a wise man, "for if thou stand still long enough the world will come round to thee.
It never struck them as possible that it could 'seem good' to a wise man not to cut his enemy's throat when he could do it without danger to himself.
Ecclesiastes, speaking in Solomon's name, reckons it a great evil that he must leave his labour to his successor; 'and who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool?
But he soon found that he could not move freely in the unaccustomed armour, and flung it off, like a wise man.
No one ever on seeing Mr Crawley took him to be a happy man, or a weak man, or an ignorant man, or a wise man.
By this it appears that it is a hard thing to make a fool a wise man.
It doth not say a wise man hath the grace of fear, but a wise man feareth, that is, putteth this grace into exercise.
If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.
A wise man fears, and shuns evil, but the fool is hotheaded and reckless.
Then follows a discourse on the Constancy of a Wise Man.
The preceding discourse is followed by one upon the Retirement of a Wise Man.
Therefore, to make use of what comes in our way, and to enjoy it as much as possible (not to the point of satiety, for that would not be enjoyment) is the part of a wise man.
I may be reputed a wise man in such a sort of wisdom as I take to be folly.
A young man asked the philosopher Panetius if it were becoming a wise man to be in love?
Soldiers brave not the dangers that are braved by a wise man in an unwise age!
Only, O would-be wise man, only when we muse on Heaven do our souls ascend from the fowler's snare!
But 'tis an old and pleasant question, whether the soul of a wise man can be overcome by the strength of wine?
He heard talk of an old ferryman, who lived one day's journey away by the river, and who was regarded as a wise man by many.
Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness.
If I was able to say and teach it, I might be a wise man, but like this I am only a ferryman, and it is my task to ferry people across the river.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wise man" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
