You can fool a scientist, but you can never fool another magician.
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
What makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire.[A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.]
To marry a fool is to be no fool.[Epouser une sotte, est pour n’être point sot.]
This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story.
There’s no fool like an old fool.
The young people think the old people are fools; but the old people know the young people are fools!
The wise in all ages have always said the same things, and the fools, who at all times form the immense majority, have in their way too acted alike, and done just the opposite; and so it will continue.
