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"folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise foundress of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss." »Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller
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"One man's folly is another man's wife." »Helen Rowland
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"Anger without power is folly." »German Proverb
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"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others." »Pliny the Elder
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"Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom." »Horace
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"Want and sorrow are the gifts which folly earns for itself." »Schubert
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"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"A thing can be true and still be desperate folly." »Richard Adams, _Watership Down_
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"He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent." »Aldous Huxley
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"Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes." »Bible, Proverbs 26:4 (NIV)
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"Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly." »Jonathan Swift
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"The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks." »La Rochefoucauld
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"The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
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"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse." »John Quincy Adams
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"It's easy to sit and scoff at an old man's folly. But also, check out his Adam's apple" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door." »Publilius Syrus
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"There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"One man's justice is another's injustice one man's beauty another's ugliness one man's wisdom another's folly." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people." »James Abram Garfield
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"Poverty is not dishonourable in itself, but only when it arises from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly." »Plutarch
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"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." »Herbert Spencer
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"There is no fire like passion; there is no shark like hatred; there is no snare like folly; there is no torrent like greed." »The Dhammapada
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"Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly." »Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
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"Leave each one his touch of folly it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry." »John Lancaster Spalding
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"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." »George Bernard Shaw
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"A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom." »Hazlitt
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"Both white and black acknowledge women?s sway, So much the better and the wiser too, Deeming it most convenient to obey, Or possibly they might their folly rue.*" »Persian
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"Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind." »Julius Rosenwald
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"Yet ah why should they know their fateSince sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise." »Thomas Gray
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