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When a wise man intervenes in a discussion, he frightens everyone no less than a wolf. If there is something to be bought, if a business is to be concluded, if, in short, it is one of those things without which our life is not possible, this sage will seem to you an incomparable fool, and not a being human. He cannot be useful either to himself or to his country, because he is ignorant of the commonest things, and is very far removed from the general opinions and customs respected by all the world. From such inconsistency with the reality of life and morals, a hatred towards everything around is certainly born, because in human society everything is soaked in stupidity, everything is done by fools among fools.

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When a wise man intervenes in a discussion, he frightens everyone no less than a wolf. If there is something to be bought, if a business is to be concluded, if, in short, it is one of those things without which our life is not possible, this sage will seem to you an incomparable fool, and not a being human. He cannot be useful either to himself or to his country, because he is ignorant of the commonest things, and is very far removed from the general opinions and customs respected by all the world. From such inconsistency with the reality of life and morals, a hatred towards everything around is certainly born, because in human society everything is soaked in stupidity, everything is done by fools among fools.

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Romanian

"Când un înțelept intervine într-o discutie, îi sperie pe toți nu mai puțin decât un lup. Dacă trebuie cumpărat ceva, dacă urmează să se încheie o afacere, dacă, pe scurt, e vorba despre unul dintre acele lucruri fără de care viața noastră nu-i posibilă, acest înțelept ți se va părea un prostănac fără seamăn, și nu o ființă umană. El nu poate fi util nici sie însuși, nici țării sale, fiindcă nu se pricepe la cele mai obișnuite lucruri și e foarte departe de opiniile generale și de obiceiurile respectate de toată lumea. Dintr-o asemenea neconcordanță cu realitatea vieții și a moravurilor ia naștere cu siguranță o ură față de toate cele înconjurătoare, fiindcă în societatea umană totul este îmbibat de prostie, totul este făcut de proști în mijlocul proștilor."

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