A Quote by Voltaire

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Voltaire

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

George Savile

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

Charles Caleb Colton

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

George Herbert

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

William Hazlitt

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

Frances Wright

Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.

Edward Rowland Sill

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

John Dryden

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

Patricia Wentworth

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

William Hazlitt

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

Christopher Marlowe

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

George Berkeley

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

Giacomo Casanova

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

Edward Young

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