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Virtue begins by shunning vice; wisdom
By shunning folly.

[Virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima
stultitia caruisse.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1, l. 41ff (1.1.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]

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WIST Quotations 3d ago

A quotation from Molière

CLITANDRE: A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.

[Un sot savant est sot plus qu’un sot ignorant.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Les Femmes Savantes [The Learned Ladies], Act 4, sc. 3 (1692) [tr. Van Laun (1876)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/moliere/42174/

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Hypno-Scream ❤️🩷💜3d ago

@HypnoticInk198 Very well. Here's your waifu. #hypnosis #hypnoart #hypnoartist #hypnotized #folly #bedlah #dancer #bellydancer #krita

WIST Quotations 3d ago

A quotation from Walter Miller

There is some wisdom, and some foolishness in every people’s way.

Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923-1996) American writer
“The Soul-Empty Ones,” Astounding Science Fiction (1951-08)

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WIST Quotations Aug 21

A quotation from Cicero

A man who does not see this is senseless; he who does see it, and still advocates such a measure, is impious.

[Hoc qui non videt, excors; qui, cum videt, decernit, impius est.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 5, ch. 2 / sec. 5 (5.2/5.5) (43-01-01 BC) [tr. Yonge (1903)]

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Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 5, ch. 2 / sec. 5 (5.2/5.5) (43-01-01 BC) [tr. Yonge (1903)] - Cicero, Marcus Tullius | WIST Quotations

A man who does not see this is senseless; he who does see it, and still advocates such a measure, is impious. [Hoc qui non videt, excors; qui, cum videt, decernit, impius est.] On the suggestion that Mark Antony be bought off by giving him governorship of Transalpine Gaul, and…

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Kunst en Landschap Aug 8

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robertrosendal_aankondiging-folly-art-norg-2025-activity-7359699431979433984-Kpek?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAHDsFAB4V05W4nmEukGZRvHEWY5yhK92UU

Folly Art Norg (#FAN) is ‘hét dwaasbouw evenement van Nederland!’: een 7,5 km lange wandelroute door het prachtige esdorpenlandschap van #Norg, waar fantasierijke en functieloze kunstwerken, ook wel… | Robert Rosendal

Folly Art Norg (#FAN) is ‘hét dwaasbouw evenement van Nederland!’: een 7,5 km lange wandelroute door het prachtige esdorpenlandschap van #Norg, waar fantasierijke en functieloze kunstwerken, ook wel #folly’s genoemd, de show stelen. Deze bouwwerken, gemaakt door kunstenaars, architecten, autodidacten en hobbyisten zijn allesbehalve praktisch. Ze roepen emoties op, inspireren, maken je aan het lachen of zetten je aan het denken. Van een uitvergroot Lego-kasteel tot een zwevend frame van een huis: elke folly vertelt een uniek verhaal. Laat je – ook deze zomer weer (van 27/7 t/m 24/8) - verrassen door unieke bouwsels. https://follyartnorg.nl/ Bekijk hieronder de aankondiging van de FAN-2025-editie. Door op de video te klikken kom je in een speciale #afspeellijst met tientallen folly-video's op het YouTube-kanaal van Kunst en Landschap Noord Nederland (abonneren mag). https://lnkd.in/gVCE-dW8

WIST Quotations Jul 31

A quotation from Moliere

ELMIRE: No, amorous men are gullible. Their conceit
So blinds them that they’re never hard to cheat.

[Non; on est aisément dupé par ce qu’on aime.
Et l’amour-propre engage à se tromper soi-même.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 4, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/78138/

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WIST Quotations Jul 25

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God’s sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37

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Goudomrand Jul 22

One of the many decorations of the Pena Palace in Sintra is this person of Triton, messenger from the deep sea.

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WIST Quotations Jul 18

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

When the torrent sweeps the man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. Shelley, chafing at the Church of England, discovered the cure of all evils in universal atheism. Generous lads irritated at the injustices of society, see nothing for it but the abolishment of everything and Kingdom Come of anarchy. Shelley was a young fool; so are these cocksparrow revolutionaries. But it is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37

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