"Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]"
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"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others."
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"Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce."
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"Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent."
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"Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly."
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"Fools are not mad folks."
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"For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly."
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"Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars."
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"To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies."
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"All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]"
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"I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious."
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"Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty."
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"Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more."
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"Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly."
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"Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly."
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"Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion."
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"Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived."
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"If others had not been foolish, we should be so."
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"O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted."
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"I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]"
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