"Folly is the only thing that keeps youth at a stay and old… - Erasmus

"Folly is the only thing that keeps youth at a stay and old age afar off;" as it is verified in the Brabanders, of whom there goes this common saying, "That age, which is wont to render other men wiser, makes them the greater fools."

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Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (27 October 1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch philosopher, humanist and theologian.

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Folly is the only thing that keeps youth at a stay and old age afar off;

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George Bernard Shaw Jean-Jacques Rousseau Voltaire Michel de Montaigne Molière

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