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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
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Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
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Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD), Natural History
Yet ah! why should they know their fate,
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies?
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
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Thomas Gray, "On a Distant Prospect of Eton College" 1742
Anger without power is folly.
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German Proverb
Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.
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Bible, Proverbs 26:4 (NIV)
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
The common curse of mankind,-folly and ignorance.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act II, sc. 2
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