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“Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.”

Life Is Fool Ought Fairs Not Fair

Author:David Brin

“If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.”

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

“Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.”

Book Real Sometimes Helping Hands Accepting Wise Imagine Fool Depends Ought Kings Dignity Importance Titles Merit Slender

Book:Essays and The Bee

Source: Essays and The Bee

“He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.”

Ifs Men Wells Sides Opinion Fool Ought Judgment Coward Consent

Author:Daniel Defoe

“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.”

Knows May Self Wisdom Doubt Fool Ought Prove Obstacles Heroic Heroism Truest Greatest Obstacles

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”

“I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.”

Men Action Sin Common Wise Mankind Youth Fool Ought Ashamed Temper Irrational Repent

Book:Robinson Crusoe

Source: Robinson Crusoe