"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon."

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

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."

Doris Lessing, English Writer

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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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"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."

Voltaire, French 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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"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."

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"Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it."

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"Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have."

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"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."

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

"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."

"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."

"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."

"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."

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"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."

"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."

"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."

"When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."

"Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it."

"Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have."

"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."

"To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all."

"Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence."

"Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself."