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«I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.»
Author: Anatole France (Writer) | About: Enthusiasm, Wisdom | Keywords: enthusiasm, folly, indifference, prefer, preferring
«It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.»
Author: Epicurus | About: Prayer, Self-confidence, Self-control | Keywords: folly, obtain, the gods
«It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (Author, Writer) | Keywords: appear, cling, cling to, clung, courses, false, folly, necessity, recognize, weighed, weighing
«Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.»
Author: Tom Robbins (Novelist) | Keywords: folly, impede, impeded, impedes, impeding, turning
«If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: folly, long-lived, shorten, shortening, shortens, wickedness
«In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.»
Author: George Orwell (Essayist, Novelist) | About: Politics | Keywords: at issue, evasion, evasions, folly, hatred, issues, issuing, keeping, Mass, political, politics, schizophrenia, take issue
«Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment withoutwhich it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly toabolish liberty, which is essential to political life, becauseit nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilationof air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts tofire its destructive agency.»
Author: James Madison (President) | About: Liberty | Keywords: abolish, agency, aliment, annihilation, destructive, expire, expires, expiring, faction, factions, folly, imparting, imparts, instantly, nourishes, political liberty, The Agency
«I prefer the wisdom of the unlearned to the folly of the loquacious»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero (Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: folly, loquacious, unlearned, unlearning, unlearns
«Knowledge without sense is twofold folly»
Author: Spanish Proverb | Keywords: folly, knowledge, sense, twofold
«If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Love | Keywords: folly, Hast, run into, slightest, Thee, thou
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