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Foolish Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.
- In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.
- There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are…
- As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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- Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always… — Charles Baudelaire
- Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. — Ezra Taft Benson
- Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. — Ambrose Bierce
- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. — Aeschylus
- Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from… — Bill Bryson
- Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment… — Thomas Carlyle
- To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only… — Thomas Carlyle
- Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. — Cher
- Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero