A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.
Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.
God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.
All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the logical result of the out-push of Life into self-expression.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life of believers, originate the most intense motives for the most significant creative performance, not only in the field of arts and sciences but also in politics.
Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
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