Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"Fools multiply when wise men are silent."
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise."
Assata Shakur
Activist
"Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
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"Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it."
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"It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart."
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"The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself."
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"Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple."
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"Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart."
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"I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you."
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"Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege."
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"Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough."
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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within."
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"Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children."
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"How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!"
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"You don't get to be old bein' no fool."
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"Silence is the best response to a fool."
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"I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one."
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"After the event, even a fool is wise."
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"Who knows where the road will lead us Only a fool would say, But if you let me love you I'm sure to love you all the way."
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"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."
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"Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread."
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"Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words."
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"God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!"
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