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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools
by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that
fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD)
-- Life of Marcus Cato
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. CATO
Fools are certain, but wise men hesitate.
Fools wander, Wise men travel.
Wise men learn much from fools. Wise guys don't.
As ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance, so good breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equal.
-- Steele...
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. -- Poor Richard
Wise men don't need advice. Fools don't take it. -- Ben Frankli
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. -- Samuel Palme
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