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Sunday, October 02, 2022

The wise man alone is free, and every fool is a slave.
—Stoic Maxim

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
—Niccolò Machiavelli

The truth is bitter and disagreeable to fools ; but falsehood is sweet and acceptable.
—Chrysostom

Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man
—William Penn

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.
—Publilius Syrus