Nicolas Gomez Davila Quotes

The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.

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• The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.

  

  Nicolas Gomez Davila
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