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«The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.»
«The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.»
«Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies»
Author: Homer
| About:
God,
Men
| Keywords:
blaming, follies, Gods Themselves, mortals, The Gods Themselves, woes
«Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Foolishness,
World
| Keywords:
follies, wanting
«O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.»
Author: St. Teresa of Avila
(Mystic, Nun, Writer)
| Keywords:
continuous, follies, longs, pious, possesses, utters
«Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.»
«The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness; and the old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom»
«The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.»
«The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Foolishness
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costly, follies, occupation, palpably, passionately
«The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental»
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