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- Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective…
- Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise. What is clear…
- At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
- The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length.
- Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.
- I can hardly keep wondering at my own folly in thinking it worthwhile to leave my books and garden, even for one day's attendance in…
- The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
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- If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd — William Shakespeare
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it… — Will Ferguson
- There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will… — Antonin Artaud
- He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit. — William Shakespeare
- I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder’s performance piece. The… — David Sedaris