#follies

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place. ↗

— Moliere

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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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