"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat

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"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that."

John le Carre, English Writer

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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."

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

"Silence is the wit of fools."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that."

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"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."

"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."

"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts."

"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."

"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."

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"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."