From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap

He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so