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

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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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"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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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

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"All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers."

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"Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."

Literature

"What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?"

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"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."

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"Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

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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."

"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!"

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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."

"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

"All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers."

"Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."

"What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?"

"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."

"Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."