The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

More knave than fool.

More knave than fool.

A fool must now and then be right by chance.

A fool must now and then be right by chance.

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like
unto him.
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Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like
unto him.
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own
conceit.

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into read more

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.

All places are filled with fools.
[Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

All places are filled with fools.
[Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a
pestle, yet will not his foolishness read more

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a
pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.

Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of
skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival read more

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of
skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly of
credulity.