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... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
My dreams are all follies. — Taylor Caldwell
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for… — Charles Caleb Colton
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our… — Albert Camus
If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him,… — Thomas Jefferson
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to… — William Winwood Reade
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. — Horace
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The shortest follies are the best. — Pierre Charron
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn… — Thomas Hartwell Horne
I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Ive every said, and I used… — Will Rogers
The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool… — Charles Caleb Colton
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of… — Bill Vaughan
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. — Benjamin Franklin
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Edward Gibbon
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter… — Thomas Jefferson
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. — H. L. Mencken
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place. — Moliere
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. — Samuel Richardson
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. — Helen Rowland
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. — Arthur Schopenhauer
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. — Jonathan Swift
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. — Voltaire

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