Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
'Tis folly to be wise.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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