The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.
The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.