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“The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.”

World Has Beens Law Fool Stupidity Ceremony Rules Of Life

Book:Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds

Source: Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds

“When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool”

Men Law Religious Effects Produce Fool Convince

Book:The letters of Peter Plymley, essays, and speeches

Source: The letters of Peter Plymley, essays, and speeches

“Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought; it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return.”

Men World Want Giving Law Science Spirit Nature Born Imagination Natural Break Subjects Fool Return Giving Up Bounds Vain Visible Can Not Soar

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.”

Law Fool Customs

Book:British Theatre: Bold stroke for a wife

Source: British Theatre: Bold stroke for a wife

“Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when the senses shiver and shudder, it is only a fool and and an irreverent person that will keep his distance, who will not embrace the good cause, marching towards the conquest of pleasures and passions. All of morality's laws - poorly understood and applied - are nil and cannot stand even for a moment, when the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners.”

Persons Moments Law Passion Speak Causes Pleasure Responsibility Fool Morality Understood Embrace Distance Guilt Senses Conquest Parades Banner Shiver Good Causes Irreverent

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“Indiana's governor is coming under fire for a new law that some people feel is anti-gay. The governor now says he is not anti-gay. Then immediately afterwards he said, 'April Fools.' It wasn't his best joke.”

People Feels Said Law Fire Fool Gay Jokes Governors April Indiana April Fools Anti Gay

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.”

Firsts Looks Two Lasts Past Law Party Fashion Fool Description Customs Novelty Clash Legislators Precedent

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

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

“I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.”

Ifs Reason Law Loses Break Fool Demand Criticism Elders Pardon Applause

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton