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Riches serve a wise man but command a fool. — English
Saints appear to fools. — Portuguese
Send a fool to catch a fool. — English
Send a fool to the market and a fool he'll return. — English
Silence is good for the wise, how much more so for the foolish. — Hebrew
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Sometimes a fool can say something clever. — Yiddish
Soon ripe, soon rotten; soon wise, soon foolish. — Dutch
Success makes a fool seem wise. — English
Sweet words please fools. — Japanese
That which a fool does at last, a wise man does at first. — English
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That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. — African (Oji)
The wise man does at first what the fool does at last. — Indian (Hindi)
You don't show a fool a job half done. — Yiddish
The wise and the fool have their fellows. — English
The wise man is deceived but once, the fool twice. — English
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The dream is a fool and sleep's the master. — Yiddish
The heart of a fool is on his tongue; the tongue of a wise man is in his heart. — Armenian
The feast passes and the fool remains. — Italian
The appearance of the wise differs from that of the fool. — African (Yoruba)
The boaster and the proud person are fools. — Japanese
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The older a fool is, the worse he is. — English
The praise of fools is censure in disguise. — English
The biggest folly of the fool is that he thinks he is smart. — Yiddish
The fool has his answer on the edge of his tongue. — African (Egypt)
The wise man must carry the fool upon his shoulders. — English
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The higher the fool, the greater the fall. — English
The least foolish is wise. — English
The fool will laugh when drowning. — Welsh
The more fools, the more laughter. — French
The fool hid what would eat him. — Kenyan
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The fool rejoices over his memories. — Greek
The good looks of a moron do not stay that way for long. — Ugandan
The more riches a fool has, the greater fool he is. — English
The fools knows more in his own house than the sage in other men's. — Italian
The fool who is silent passes for wise. — French
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The fool and the clown grow old worrying over others. — Greek
The fool continues procrastinating, the wise man waits a fit occasion. — Turkish
The fool runs away while his house is burning down. — English
The fool tells his cares to another who lives in comfort. — Finnish
The fool hunts for misfortune. — French
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The fool plucks at a wasp's nest. — Filipino
The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks. — English
The world is full of fools. — English
The first chapter of fools is to esteem themselves wise. — English
The fool wanders, the wise man travels. — English
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. — African (Egypt)
The lawyer that defends himself, has a fool for a client. — American
The world is too narrow for two fools a-quarrelling. — English
There is no law written for a fool. — Russian
There is a fool at every feast. — Dutch
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