"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite."

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"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite."

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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."

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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."

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"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."

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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."

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"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth."

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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

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"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

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"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."

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"We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack."

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"Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller."

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"Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly."

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"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life.preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation."

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