#follies

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. ↗

— Voltaire

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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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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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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. ↗

— William S. Paley

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