A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French - Writer
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement.

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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

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If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.

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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame