“A wise man travels to discover himself.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
“It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.”
Xenophanes, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics
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