The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery a metaphor for a proof a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths and oneself for an oracle is inborn in us.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit it leads to exploitation.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor but not for their folly.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Alcohol doesn't console it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary it encourages him in his folly it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

Humanity has the stars in its future and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.