... a hundred fools together will not make one wise man.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.

The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

We find that at present the human race is divided into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become 'politicians'; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly outnumbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics, or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off under the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare. It is pleasant to have command, observes Sancho Panza, even over a flock of sheep, and that is why the politicians raise their banners. It is, moreover, the same thing for the sheep whatever the banner. If it is democracy, then the nine knaves will become members of parliament; if fascism, they will become party leaders; if communism, commissars. Nothing will be different, except the name. The fools will be still fools, the knaves still leaders, the results still exploitation. As for the wise man, his lot will be much the same under any ideology. Under democracy he will be encouraged to starve to death in a garret, under fascism he will be put in a concentration camp, under communism he will be liquidated.

If it was not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

The wise man molds himself — the fool lives only to die.

Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.