"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, British Novelist

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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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"Silence is the wit of fools."

Anatole France, French Novelist

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

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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Anton Chekhov, Russian Dramatist

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"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

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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."

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

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

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

"No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing."

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."

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"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error."

"Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength."

"A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today."

"I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die."

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