A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.
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Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.
The rabbis, the Jewish religious people, the priests of the temple of Jerusalem, they were learned fools. They could not tolerate Jesus. The learned fools are always disturbed by the blessed fools. They had to murder him because his very presence was uncomfortable; his very presence was such a pinnacle of peace, love, compassion and light, that all the learned fools became aware that their whole being was at stake. If this man lived then they were fools, and the only way to get rid of this man was to destroy him so they could. again become the learned people of the race.
Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.
Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.
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