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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one (Folly Quotes)
For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men (Folly Quotes)
There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way (Folly Quotes)
Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly (Folly Quotes)
The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool (Folly Quotes)
Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none (Folly Quotes)
If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride (Folly Quotes)
... the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear (Folly Quotes)
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly (Folly Quotes)
That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones (Folly Quotes)
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly (Folly Quotes)
I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out (Folly Quotes)
To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly (Folly Quotes)
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly (Folly Quotes)
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks (Folly Quotes)
A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space (Folly Quotes)
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly (Folly Quotes)
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf (Folly Quotes)
The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable (Folly Quotes)
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed (Folly Quotes)
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world (Folly Quotes)
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known (Folly Quotes)
I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons (Folly Quotes)
It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant (Folly Quotes)
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats (Folly Quotes)
It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength (Folly Quotes)
It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly! (Folly Quotes)
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible (Folly Quotes)
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep (Folly Quotes)
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like (Folly Quotes)