"The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world."

Fool, Man, Mistakes, World

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"The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world."

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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."

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"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"Silence is the wit of fools."

Anatole France, French Novelist

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"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future."

David Gerrold, American Writer

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"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."

Sidney Hook, American Philosopher

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"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."

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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

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"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."

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"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing."

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"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."

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"The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down."

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"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."

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"Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed."

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"Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say."

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"The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little."

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