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One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.
The essence of forgiveness is seeing our humanness and seeing that we all have our limitations and follies.
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
I don't blame anyone but myself for the kind of parts I got. To blame external circumstances is absolute folly.
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.
If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.
The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.