#folly

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#criminality #enemy #folly #gates #luxury

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#ambition #become #before #caring #every

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. ↗

— Anatole France

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Beauty and folly are old companions. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#companions #folly #old

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. ↗

— James A. Garfield

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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. ↗