• Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

  Cato the Elder
  Roman senator and historian BC 234-149
  

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1. successes
2. imitate

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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. by : Cato the Elder

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