#folly

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#day #folly #for the day #leaves #prepares

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#men

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! ↗

— Denis Diderot

#attempt #complete #desire #destruction #end

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. ↗

— William Blake

#folly #fool #his #persists #who

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. ↗

— William Blake

#folly #fool #his #persist #wise

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. ↗

— William Blake

#folly #hours #measure #measured #wisdom

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it. ↗

— Leon Kass

#folly #into #just #just because #nations

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. ↗

— Epicurus

#folly #gods #himself #man #obtain

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#ask #certain #decide #folly #fun

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#deception #folly #hear #human #i