folly

is requisite in the attainment of wisdom. He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.] Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is that divine gift and faculty whose creative and controlling energy inspires man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

folly, n. That 'gift and faculty divine' whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life. (Ambrose Bierce)

is to be profitted from rather than participated in.

*Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.

*Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

1s 2hief characteristic is that it mistakes itself for wisdom.

*We 'need' cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

is ubiquitous. There are more fools than wise men and even in the wise man himself there is more folly than wisdom.

There are more fools than wise men and even in the wise man himself there is more folly than wisdom.

is a joy only to a person lacking in understanding

Folly is a joy only to a person lacking in understanding

is one man's folly is another man's wife.

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