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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."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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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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"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

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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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"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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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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"That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them."

Alfred Sutro, American Playwright

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

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."

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"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."

Religion

"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."

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"It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it."

Acceptance

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."

Personality

"When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?"

Sacrifice

"The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes."

Mind

"Writing is the supreme solace."

Writing

"Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up all for nothing. They've been cheated. They're dupes."Waddington reflected for a little while. "I wonder if it matters what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books the write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."

Reflection

"The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it."

Mindfulness