fools, The Mechanics of Virtue, Matt Berry, aphorism 115

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In every disagreement one of the two or both are fools, and both cannot be wise except in the case of agreement, but that is not to say of course that in agreement both are necessarily wise. In fact when both are in agreement, the probability is greatest that any existing error will remain. So, two wise individuals who come to agreement suddenly frown, for in losing their cause for debate they have also lost their instrument for error detection.

And observing them, two idiots agree wholeheartedly that it is an indisputable error for someone to set his aim on wisdom and yet give free rein to this obvious flaw of implacability. Doesn't everyone agree that it is an error to want anything other than the happiness of peace, harmony, and universal agreement?



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