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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
— Rudyard Kipling
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.
— Immanuel Kant
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
— Epicurus
Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.
— Herman Melville
Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.
— Raymond E. Feist
It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.
— William Graham Sumner
To me, it's the folly of man to make God human.
— Billy Corgan
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
— P.T. Barnum
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
One man's folly is another man's wife.
— Helen Rowland
A man cannot change who he is. He can only hope that with age comes the wisdom to see his folly. I would like to believe I have achieved that.
— Bette Lee Crosby
The greater a man's folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]
— Robert A. Heinlein
And I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.
— James Lee Burke
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all ... is not to have one.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.
— Khalil Gibran
In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.
— Soren Kierkegaard
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
— Joseph Addison
It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
— G.K. Chesterton
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.
— Samuel Johnson
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
— Francis Bacon
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
— William Temple
For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.
— Sophocles
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
17 A man of c quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated. 18 The simple inherit folly,
— Anonymous
Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.
— Bertrand Russell
He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.'
Gothos' Folly — Steven Erikson
Gothos' Folly — Steven Erikson
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
— Michel De Montaigne
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.
— Samuel Johnson
FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.
— Ambrose Bierce
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
— Walter Scott
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
— Mark Twain
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
— Miguel De Cervantes
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
— A.E. Housman