"To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]"
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"The older a fool is, the worse he is."
"Vanity, not love, has been my folly."
"Knowledge without wisdom is double folly."
"If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others."
"The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason."
"Folly growes without watering."
"It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones."
"I was also built from delusional optimism and folly."
"Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes."
"Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks."
"We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder."
"The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly."
"There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]"
"Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace."
"If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]"
"Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart."
"Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard."
"By their own follies they perished, the fools."
"Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly."