"The fool knows after he's suffered."

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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

Fool, Fools, Shame, Wounds

"Silence is the wit of fools."

Anatole France, French Novelist

Fool, Fools, Silence, Wit

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

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

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"It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Fool, Risk

"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

Fool, Man, Will

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

Lord Byron, British Poet

Fool, Fools, Satire, Song

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

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Fool, Fools, Fortune

"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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"He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace."

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"Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it."

God

"But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper."

People

"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy."

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"Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune."

Adversity

"How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear."

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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."

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

"It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is."

"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."

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

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

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

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"He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace."

"Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death."

"Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth."

"Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man."

"Acquisition means life to miserable mortals."

"Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it."

"But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper."

"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy."

"Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune."

"How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear."