If I wanted to avoid meeting a pessimistic philospher I would Schopenhauer earlier.
It is better to keep your mouth closed, and let people think you are fool than to open it, and remove all doubt.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens,
aka MarkTwain.
It took me a few minutes :)
Very good.
"I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken"
Oliver Cromwell, 3rd August 1650 - in a letter to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland
Cheers Craig
"No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full."
Lucius Cornelius Sulla - died 78 BC