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Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all femin — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques
My belief is that, morally, God and Satan are vaguely on the same page. According to the common understanding of Satan's — Criss Jami, Healology
You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shu — C.S. Lewis
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. — Colette
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. — Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foo — Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair
We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today — Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell. — Thomas Fuller
Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results. — Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn — Bertrand Russell
Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men. — Marcus Porcius Cato
A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear. — William Shakespeare, Hamlet
He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while. — Christopher Paolini, Inheritance
Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his — H. Rider Haggard, She
There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore be — John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider
Our wisdom comes from our experience,and our experience comes from our foolishness. — Sacha Guitry