#folly

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. ↗

— Lord Byron

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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#ambition #become #before #caring #every

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. ↗

— Anatole France

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