“The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.”
Experience
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
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