“Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit”
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“Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit”
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference”
“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction”
“As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before”
“There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it”
“We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice”
“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave”
“There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool”
“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool ”
“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots”
“An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time”
“Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match”
“A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out”
“A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense”
“A wise man seeks wisdom; a madman thinks that he has found it.”
“Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat”
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”