Avoid Popularity – Quote by William Penn

„Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.“

William PennWilliam Penn warns against popularity, as it has many snares and no real benefit.
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William Penn was the founder of the Pennsylvania colony and a writer.

A philosophical advice from William Penn cautioning against popularity and its risks.


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William Penn founded the Pennsylvania colony in what is now the United States. He is known for his 1693 essay "Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe," which addressed issues of peace and politics. Penn was an important advocate for tolerance and peace.

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"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other" Epiktet
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