Marcus Tullius Cicero Folly Quotations

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

To stumble twice against the same stone is a Proverbsial disgrace.

I prefer the wisdom of the unlearned to the folly of the loquacious