Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
“What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?”
“If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.”
“Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.”
“The severest justice may not always be the best policy”
“What better book can there be than the book of humanity.”
“Those men that in their writings are most wiseOwn nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.”
“The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.”
“[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.”
“Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.”
