Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.


Marcus Porcius Cato

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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Wise men and fools cannot exist without the other. If there are no wise men, there are no fools, and...
SIDDHARTH KONKIMALLA
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Wise man learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE CENSOR
Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS
Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS ANACHARSIS
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS
Wise men are instructed in reason;
Men of less understanding by experience;
The most unknowing...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
ALCUIN (ALBINUS)
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
ALCUIN
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Fools look to tomorrow, wise men use tonight.
UNKNOWN
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Wise men make proverbs but fools repeat them
SAMUEL PALMER
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight
SCOTTISH PROVERB
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
PROVERB
It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools
SPANISH PROVERB
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
THOMAS HUXLEY
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
JOHN TILLOTSON
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
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A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
THOMAS HOOD
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
THOMAS FULLER
Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence
WILL HENRY
Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
HARRY DAY
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
DOUGLAS BADER
If fools didn't talk, there wouldn't be wise men to listen and laugh.
EPHDAN
Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
THOMAS FULLER
Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men
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Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred
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Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise a...
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Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise a...
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
PLATO
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
PLATO
The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others
TIBETAN PROVERB
Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons; Wise men never try
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons; Wise men never try
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -Plato
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Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making f...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is...
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Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
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“When wise men plan for life they equally plan for death. But when fools plan for life they don't ...
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Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they...
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Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
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Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
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An old cynic is a guy, who is simply telling the truth, and that gripes the hell out of leeches; the...
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The mistakes of the wise are better than the wisdom of fools.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
QUINTILIAN
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
QUINTILIAN
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equali...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Fools can't understand even the gist by reading repeatedly the whole book; wise could comprehend eas...
ANUJ SOMANY
There is no surprise that every person’s words or thoughts have inherent voice and that clearly re...
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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
ISAAC DISRAELI
One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'
ROBERT BROWNING
The world has been made by fools that men should live in it
OSCAR WILDE
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
FRANCIS BACON, SR.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
FRANCIS BACON
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
EDWARD YOUNG
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
We start as fools and become wise through experience
AFRICAN PROVERB
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
LARRY NIVEN
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
AFRICAN PROVERB
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
MARCUS T. CICERO
Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.
ANONYMOUS
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
BIBLE
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by n...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able...
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A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools
PROVERB
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
THOMAS FULLER
Life with fools consists in drinking; with the wise man, thinking.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There are a lot of intelligent fools, but no wise idiots.
LANDON J. FOSSUM
If there were no fools, how would we recognize the wise
NORWEGIAN PROVERB
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of thems...
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If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools
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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can unders...
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
MARCUS AURELIUS
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of...
GREIL MARCUS
Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the go...
MARCUS AURELIUS
I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
MARCUS AURELIUS
It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the l...
GREIL MARCUS
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits...
MARCUS AURELIUS
One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, th...
MARCUS AURELIUS
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
MARCUS AURELIUS
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
MARCUS ANTONIUS