Top Folly Quotes
One man's folly is another man's wife.
Helen Rowland
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake
The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
Atom Egoyan
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Alcaeus
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
Robert Peel 
James Madison 
Oliver Goldsmith 
Ernestine Rose 
Denis Diderot 
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery 
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It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
Richard Whately
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There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
William Graham Sumner
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It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Publilius Syrus
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Desiderius Erasmus
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Miguel De Cervantes
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