{"quotes":[{"text":"It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["achievements","fame","folly","power","rank","ruins","society","wealth"],"id":7490,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.","author":"Jane Austen","tags":["charms","clichés","desirability","disdain","education","empowerment","equality","folly","foolishness","girls","ignorance","imbecility","inferiority","men","perception","prejudice","reason","stereotypes","stupidity","women"],"id":8047,"author_id":"Jane+Austen"},{"text":"To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.","author":"Nicholas Murray Butler","tags":["folly"],"id":10811,"author_id":"Nicholas+Murray+Butler"},{"text":"Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["education","enlightenment","folly","ignorance","knowledge","learning","light","light","philosophy","read","reading","school","schooling","student","university","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":14749,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.","author":"La Rochefoucauld","tags":["folly"],"id":14914,"author_id":"La+Rochefoucauld"},{"text":"I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!","author":"Walter Scott","tags":["folly","heart","love"],"id":15393,"author_id":"Walter+Scott"},{"text":"Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.","author":"Robert Owen","tags":["law","rational","folly "],"id":18627,"author_id":"Robert+Owen"},{"text":"Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.","author":"Euripides","tags":["being","folly","happiness","happy","human","life","lives","logic","luck","luckier","lucky","masters","people","rich","shadow"],"id":26678,"author_id":"Euripides"},{"text":"The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["brilliance","enlightenment","faith","folly","fool","foolish","genius","guru","ignorance-of-people","ignorance","intelligence","knowledge","learning","master","mind","mind","sage","smart","spiritual-insight","spiritual-insights","spiritual","spiritual","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","student","teacher","teaching","understanding","wisdom","wisdom","wise","wise","wise-sayings","wise-words"],"id":30366,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Wisdom’s slaves are better than folly’s kings.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["folly","wisdom"],"id":38797,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":98,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}