A Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
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The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.
The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.
Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're on the brink of the greatest realization.....When the pain is burned through rather than numbed, when our darkness is brought to light and then forgiven, then and only then can we move on. And move on we do.
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.
What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.
Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.
Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.
For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.
We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.
It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.
Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.
The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body
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