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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about fame

Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.

Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.

Quote by Boles³aw Prus about opinion

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise

Quote by William Blake about wisdom

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Quote by Joseph Addison about weakness, people, age, olderness, world, man

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

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

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about despair, world, man

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war, work, life

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, ...

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

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about enemies

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about wisdom, love

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law...

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Quote by Robert Owen about society, law, state

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Quote by Benjamin Franklin about beauty, old, olderness

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is...

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Quote by Isaac Asimov about future, burden, celebrity, stars, humanity

Childhood the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about childhood, youth, sin, age, olderness, human imperfections, life

Experience the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an...

Experience the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about experience, wisdom, old, olderness

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.

Quote by Guillaume Victor Émile Augier about genius

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