Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-4] of 4 Folly quotesFolly QuotesFolly Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?~ Maurice Freehill ...[A] fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.~ Robert A. Heinlein What fools these mortals be!~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca You are doing an excellent thing, one which will be wholesome for you, if, as you write me, you are persisting in your effort to attain sound understanding; it is foolish to pray for this when you can acquire it from yourself. We do not need to uplift our hands towards heaven, or to beg the keeper of a temple to let us approach his idol's ear, as if in this way our prayers were more likely to be heard. A god is near you, with you, and in you. This is what I mean, Lucilius: there sits a holy spirit within us, one who marks our good and bad deeds, and is our a guardian.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print