"A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it."
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"The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain."
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"The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool."
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"... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life."
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"I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something."
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"Of what I call God, And fools call Nature."
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"If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool."
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"It is better to be a fool than to be dead."
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"If you focus too much on the fools, you will eventually become one."
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"Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today."
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"I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool."
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"What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool."
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"Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!"
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"Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous."
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"I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into."
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"[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself."
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"A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both."
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"There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool."
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"It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools."
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"If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out."
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