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| The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. |
| by William Shakespeare |
| The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. |
| by Epicurus |
| Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. |
| by Ambrose Bierce |
| Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. |
| by Voltaire |
| Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. |
| by Samuel Butler |
| It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. |
| by Owen Feltham |
| Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. |
| by Ben Jonson |
| A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool. |
| by John Roux |
| In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. |
| by The Talmud |
| If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about things. |
| by W.C. Fields |
| As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity. |
| by Jean La Bruyere |
| A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. |
| by George Jean Nathan |
| You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but most of the time they will make fools of themselves. |
| by Voltaire |
| My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so. |
| by Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade |
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