Folly/history

Famous quotes containing the words folly and/or history:

“The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or ... delusion.”
—Derek Jarman (b. 1942)

“In front of these sinister facts, the first lesson of history is the good of evil. Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)