Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: Epigrams, p. 345
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Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter
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“There is no liar like the one who lies to himself. He has a fool indeed for an audience.”
Jane Yolen (1939) American speculative fiction and children's writer
Source: Short fiction, Dragonfield and Other Stories (1985), The Bull & the Crowth (p. 122)
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
Variant: He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
“The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“In limitations he first shows himself the master,
And the law can only bring us freedom.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Was Wir Bringen (1802)
“We do not learn this only from the event, which is the master of fools.”
Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian
Book XXII, sec. 39
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“Only when he has suffered does the fool learn.”
Hesiod book Works and Days
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 218.