"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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The desire to write grows with writing.

Habituons-nous à ce qu'il y a de meilleur et ainsi ce qui était rare deviendra banal, ce qui déplaisait agréable, et ce qui choquait convenable.

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?

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