But tell me, I beseech you, what man is that would submit his neck to the noose of wedlock, if, as wise men should, he did but first truly weigh the … - Erasmus

There are infinite of these subtle trifles, and others more subtle than these, of notions, relations, instants, formalities, quiddities, haecceities, which no one can perceive without a Lynceus whose eyes could look through a stone wall and discover those things through the thickest darkness that never were.

Por el contrario, será en verdad prudente, quien, sabiéndose mortal, no quiere conocer más que lo que le ofrece su condición, se presta gustoso a contemporizar con la muchedumbre humana y no tiene asco a andar errado junto a ella. Pero en esto, dirán, radica precisamente la Estulticia. No negaré que así sea, a condición de que se convenga en que tal es el modo de representar la comedia de la vida.

Conniving at your friends' vices, passing them over, being blind to them and deceived by them, even loving and admiring your friends' egregious faults as if they were virtues — does not this seem pretty close to folly?