A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
But only a fool sails into combat with nature
And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.
But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.
One part brave, three parts fool!
I'd never touch anything. I think it's foolhardy to play around with the face that you've been given. To have a little snip or a tuck, I think, is really quite obscene.
… foolhardy
If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.
There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.
In certain letters of mine on the same subject sent clandestinely to the clergy and town council of Trier, and to others—for the purpose of hindering the execution of justice against the witches, male and female—are contained many articles which are not only erroneous and scandalous, but also suspected of heresy and smacking of the crime of treason, as being seditious and foolhardy, against the common opinion of theological teachers and the decisions and bulls of the Supreme Pontiffs, and contrary to the practice and to the statutes and laws of the magistrates and judges, not only of this Archdiocese of Trier, but of other provinces and principalities, I do therefore revoke, condemn, reject, and repudiate the said articles
After he wrote that there was no such thing as witches he was imprisoned.