"The fool knows after he's suffered."

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

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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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."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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

Marcus Fabius Quintilian, Roman Philosopher

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"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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

Armand Assante, American Actor

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Silence is the wit of fools."

Anatole France, French Novelist

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

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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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."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

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

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"At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late."

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"False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth."

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

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"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."

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"Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune."

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

"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."

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

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

"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."

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

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

"Silence is the wit of fools."

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

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

"At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late."

"False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth."

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

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

"Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace."

"A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage."

"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."

"Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune."

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