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“It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.”

J.R.R. Tolkien quotes (English Writer and Author of richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings, 1892-1973)
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“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”

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“If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.”

William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

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“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

George Orwell quotes (English Novelist and Essayist, 1903-1950)

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“True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.”

Akhenaton quotes (King of Egypt, 14th century BC)

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“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”

Herbert Spencer quotes (British social Philosopher, 1820-1903)

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“The common curse of mankind, -- folly and ignorance.”

William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

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“If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life”

Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)

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“For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.”

Marquis De Sade quotes (French nobleman and Novelist whose perverse sexual preferences and erotic writings gave rise to the term sadism. 1740-1814)

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“Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an allusion of philosophers and fools.”

William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)

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