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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 “To Maecenas,” l. 41ff (1.1.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14188/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avoidance #folly #foolishness #immorality #negative #sin #stupidity #vice #virtue #wisdom
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“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Thare are two kinds of men that fear makes phools ov, them who are afrade of nothing, and them who are afrade of everything.
[There are two kinds of men that fear makes fools of, them who are afraid of nothing, and them who are afraid of everything.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-09 (1877 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/85313/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #fear #fearlessness #folly #foolishness
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@georgetakei Says the man who has congress with couches 🙄
What is wrong with these people?
#JDCouch #MAGAMadness #VladimirFuton #Ridiculousness #Foolishness
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RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116913648824840900
LLM AI models don’t matter because they are actual garbage. Anyone using them on purpose is a garbage person. No offense meant to Oscar the Grouch, though.
As for orchestrating garbage… I mean, why would you bother? It’s a waste and you’ll never get that time back. Stop being lazy stupid twats and do the work yourselves. No offense meant to actual twats… which really shouldn’t be referred to that way… and they do a lot of work and are important, unlike AIs.
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"A Great University Is Undermining Itself":
The University of California's Board of Regents made a stupid decision having this result:
"reading and writing skills (of new students) have deteriorated":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/opinion/university-california-sat-testing-admissions.html
"Hundreds of faculty members describe the situation as an emergency."
#incompetence #foolishness #mismanagement #education -
Ketika Kebodohan Duduk di Singgasana: Catatan tentang Kuasa yang Tak Ditopang Kebijaksanaan
Kisah Kertapati di desa Ngadirojo menggambarkan bahaya keputusan cepat tanpa kebijaksanaan. Lurah yang terburu-buru menutup sumur lama justru menyebabkan penyakit. Pelajaran dari cerita ini mengingatkan pentingnya berpikir mendalam dan melibatkan kebijaksanaan bersama dalam pengambilan keputusan demi kebaikan kolektif, bukan semata kepentingan pribadi. -
Of lingering and gain-seeking make an end;
Think, while there’s time, how soon Death’s pyre may blaze;
And some brief folly mix with prudent ways:
At the fit hour ’tis sweet to unbend.
[Verum pone moras et studium lucri
nigrorumque memor, dum licet, ignium
misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:
dulce est desipere in loco.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 4, # 12, l. 25ff (4.12.25-28) (13 BC) [tr. Marshall (1908)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/73650/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #business #carpediem #celebration #death #enjoyment #folly #foolishness #holiday #mortality #party #revelry #seizetheday #silliness #vacation #work #workaholic
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Even at my age, the inner 9-year-old still exists.
I hope it does in you, too.
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A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
[Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness
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Gizmodo: World’s Dumbest People Think They Can Solve the Nancy Guthrie Ransom Case With Grok. “The new images have led to something that happens in virtually every high profile criminal case these days: Social media users are running the images through generative artificial intelligence tools like xAI’s Grok, trying to get a proper looking picture of the suspect without his mask. But […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/15/gizmodo-worlds-dumbest-people-think-they-can-solve-the-nancy-guthrie-ransom-case-with-grok/ -
@theguardian_world_news
Who are these idiots, who lives in Enfield?
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Again I ask, whαt ιs goιng to hαppen when the rest of world hαs to unιte to stop "us" (U.S.)?🤔 Millions of ppl can barely afford grocerιes/heαlthcαre/a decent lιfe, but there αre endless resources for shιt most of us dιdn't αsk for.🙄
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All men make mistakes; but it is fools who persist in them.
[Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 12, ch. 2 / sec. 5 (12.2/12.5) (43-03 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2012)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #meme #changeofmind #correction #error #foolishness #folly #inflexibility #mistake #revision #selfcorrection #stubbornness #stupidity
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Intelekt without judgement iz what ails about one halff the smart people in this world.
[Intellect without judgment is what ails about one half the smart people in this world.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1975-02 “Heliotropes” (1875 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/80588/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #badjudgment #foolishness #goodjudgment #intellect #intelligence #judgment #smartness #wisdom
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Roblox CEO Makes a Fool of Himself in Car-Crash Interview
https://kotaku.com/roblox-new-york-times-interview-baszucki-2000646174
#HackerNews #Roblox #CEO #CarCrash #Interview #Foolishness #Kotaku #Gaming #News
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"DT demands 'arrests' after escalator stops, UN says his team is to blame"
ICE: "You have the right to remain stationary, any steps you take could be held against you in a farce of law..."
Yup, Clown Farts, the lot of them.. 🤡 💨
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 9 “Fear of Public Opinion” (1930)More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/792…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #BertrandRussell #autonomy #bullying #cruelty #discrimination #folly #foolishness #heterodoxy #independence #individualism #judgment #nastiness #nationalism #prejudice #racism #sexism #stupidity #merit #virtue
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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)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14188/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avoidance #folly #foolishness #immorality #negative #sin #stupidity #vice #virtue #wisdom
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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)More info about this quote: wist.info/miller-walter-m/7865…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #error #folly #foolishness #humancondition #humannature #imperfection #wisdom
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Be kinder to fools. Especially ones that make us laugh! They help us to know ourselves.
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Now listen while I show you, how the rest
Who call you madman, are themselves possessed.
Just as in woods, when travellers step aside
From the true path for want of some good guide,
This to the right, that to the left hand strays,
And all are wrong, but wrong in different ways,
So, though you’re mad, yet he who banters you
Is not more wise, but wears his pigtail too.
[Nunc accipe, quare
desipiant omnes aeque ac tu, qui tibi nomen
insano posuere. Velut silvis, ubi passim
palantis error certo de tramite pellit,
ille sinistrorsum, hic dextrorsum abit, unus utrique
error, sed variis inludit partibus: hoc te
crede modo insanum, nihilo ut sapientior ille
qui te deridet caudam trahat.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 3, “Si raro scribes,” l. 46ff (2.3.46-53) (30 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/77207/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #craziness #error #folly #fool #foolishness #humancondition #humannature #insanity #madness #mistake
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A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“He is mad as a hare, poor fellow,
And should be in chains” you say,
I haven’t a doubt of your statement,
But who isn’t mad, I pray?
Why, the world is a great asylum,
And the people are all insane,
Gone daft with pleasure or folly,
Or crazed with passion and pain.Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1876), “All Mad,” st. 1, Maurine and Other PoemsSourcing, notes: wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #folly #foolishness #humancondition #humanity #insanity #life #madness #pain #passion #pleasure
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in the wise there is more folly than wisdom.
[Il y a plus de fous que de sages, et dans le sage même, il y a plus de folie que de sagesse.]Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 149 (1795) [tr. Merwin (1969)]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/759…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #dolt #folly #fool #foolishness #humannature #idiocy #idiots #stupidity #wisdom #wise
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You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.
#einzelgänger #einzelganger #philosopher #quoteoftheday #philosophy #quotestoliveby #dailyquotes #thoughts #thoughtoftheday #lifequotes #success #failure #persistence #value #soul #foolishness #rumi
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When we think things can’t get any worse! #Foolishness
“Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America’s nuclear weapons”
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-trump-firings-nnsa
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War is bad and he is not a clear thinker.
#elon #musk #foolishness #hypocrisy #HowItStarted #HowItIsGoing
