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“Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.”

Consequence Folly Unhappiness Malice

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.”

Consequence Misery Cease Folly Restlessness

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.”

Ifs Men Fool Consequence Cures Vanity Folly

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.”

Thinking Play Bigs Happens Force Subjects Huge Terrible Consequence Folly Customs Momentum Accounting

Author:Charlie Munger

“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.”

Humanity Consequence Tolerance Folly Intolerance Pardon Frailty Pardon Me Human Frailties Tolerance And Respect

Book:Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

Source: Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

“In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.”

States Age Christianity Opinion Middle Consequence Argument Preserves Purity Folly Opposition Ridicule Middle Ages Loaded

Book:The Life and Writings of ...

Source: The Life and Writings of ...

“Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.”

Has Beens Motivational Action Known Consequence Errors Committed Planning Folly Public Life

Author:Bernard Baruch

“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.”

Firsts Law Humanity Failure Forgiveness Consequence Errors Tolerance Folly Intolerance Laws Of Nature Pardon Frailty Pardon Me Human Frailties Tolerance And Respect

Book:The Living Thoughts of Voltaire

Source: The Living Thoughts of Voltaire

“Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church.”

“[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.”