Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit
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A selected quote by François VI. de La Rochefoucauld.
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit
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All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things