Best enjoy & fool Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.”

“To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.”

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.”

Lasts Past Wish Enjoy Hours Teach Masters Fool Approach Skillful

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.”

Knows Men Long Doe Ideas Moments Time Passion Wish Enjoy Hours Wise Fool Amusing

Book:The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. But for one end, one much-neglected use, Are riches worth your care; (for nature's wants Are few, and without opulence supplied;) This noble end is, to produce the soul; To show the virtues in their fairest light; To make humanity the minister Of bounteous Providence; and teach the breast The generous luxury the gods enjoy.”

“I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.”

Men Country Character Action Enjoy Poet Fool Conversation Fancy Careless

Book:His Works

Source: His Works

“Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable”

Men Believe Humans Art Facts Enjoy Darkness Wise Fool Creating Illusion Blind Arguing Veils Curtains Ingenuity Suitable Concealing

Author:Carl Jung

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