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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

"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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"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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"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

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

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"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."

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"I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable."

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

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"Silence is the wit of fools."

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

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"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."

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"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."

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

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