"The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is……" — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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• O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all… — Teresa of Avila
• Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life… — Bernard Baruch
• The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by… — Joseph Addison
• Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. — Josh Billings
• I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will… — D. H. Lawrence
• I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who… — Mary Wortley Montagu
• Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. — Arthur Schopenhauer
• Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable. — Ambrose Bierce
• We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are… — Thomas Jefferson

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