
“Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.”
Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 3, Virtues And Vices, p. 77.
“Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.”
Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 3, Virtues And Vices, p. 77.
“A fooles bolt is soone shot.”
Part II, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position: (1841)
“98. A Fool and his Money are soon parted.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“A bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.”
Black Beauty (1877), Ch. VII, p. 36