He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert CamusWhen I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John DrydenIt seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYou can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.
Jonathan KingIn university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris LessingLove works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John DrydenOnly the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.
Christopher HitchensTo prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Claude Adrien Helvetius