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Erasmus
The praise of Folly

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1 Pref | wanting some wranglers that may cavil and charge me, partly 2 Pref | these toys are lighter than may become a divine, and partly 3 Pref | partly more biting than may beseem the modesty of a 4 Pref | foolery of the argument may offend to consider that 5 Pref | altogether thick-skulled may reap more benefit from it 6 Pref | discourse of trifles as a man may seem to have intended them 7 Pref | overweening opinion of myself may have made me blind in my 8 Pref | particular, whither, I pray, may he be said to bite, or rather 9 Praise| poet from whose mouth they may hear their praises, that 10 Praise| old proverb that says, “He may lawfully praise himself 11 Praise| ambitious than others, they may give their applause with 12 Praise| shake their ears, that they may be thought to understand 13 Praise| contrary he whom he favors may lead Jupiter and his thunder 14 Praise| companions.~And now, lest I may seem to have taken upon 15 Praise| understands as little as may be, it is also for that 16 Praise| drinking, dancing, revels, and May games, not having so much 17 Praise| which yet is all she can do, may call out to us till she 18 Praise| the rest, yet that they may the better manage it, even 19 Praise| whole lives than that they may please the man? For to what 20 Praise| they send for “one that may make it,” or hire some buffoon 21 Praise| whose ridiculous discourse may put by the gravity of the 22 Praise| call euetheian? And you may render by folly or good 23 Praise| been said of friendship may more reasonably be presumed 24 Praise| of life, and the orator may even sit still with his 25 Praise| Besides M. Antoninus (that I may give you one instance that 26 Praise| But some will say, you may as well join fire and water. 27 Praise| join fire and water. It may be so. But yet I doubt not 28 Praise| such as Homer though blind may be said to have seen when 29 Praise| if you view it narrowly may prove to be life; and so 30 Praise| What appears beautiful may chance to be deformed; what 31 Praise| who, being a fool himself, may the better know how to command 32 Praise| Besides though these things may be subject to censure, it 33 Praise| But again, the virtuosi may say that there was particularly 34 Praise| which at first perhaps may seem foolish and absurd, 35 Praise| injuries. For of them it may be truly said that they 36 Praise| for friends.~But, someone may say, the ears of princes 37 Praise| toys. And whatsoever they may happen to do with them, 38 Praise| it, though perhaps they may not be altogether so mad 39 Praise| princes.~And next these may be reckoned those that have 40 Praise| much as a place where they may lay their head, or wherewith 41 Praise| all this? but that they may pass over a few years in 42 Praise| in my opinion, next these may be reckoned such as with 43 Praise| ever contriving how they may cheat themselves, till, 44 Praise| hire a caster, or one that may put the dice in the box 45 Praise| world, which yet they desire may not happen too soon, that 46 Praise| so bought off that they may begin upon a new score. 47 Praise| though perhaps at this day it may be thought infamous, yet 48 Praise| it is much otherwise we may learn from the examples 49 Praise| wife, who yet in his eye may stand in competition with 50 Praise| point that such an omission may chance to spoil a man’s 51 Praise| and one whom Democritus may not only laugh at but flout, 52 Praise| so much difficulty that I may well conceive the apostles, 53 Praise| Paul, by whose learning you may judge the rest, would have 54 Praise| grammarians: from whence we may conjecture the great prerogative 55 Praise| do they endeavor how they may be like Christ, but how 56 Praise| like Christ, but how they may differ among themselves.~ 57 Praise| that the admiring audience may in the meanwhile whisper 58 Praise| little to the purpose that it may be truly called an ass’s 59 Praise| that whatever happens, they may be secure of the common 60 Praise| edges out another, that he may get the nearer to Jupiter 61 Praise| discouraged at anything, so they may have the liberty of turning 62 Praise| a new way by which a man may kill his brother without 63 Praise| ancients wherewith they may fright the common people 64 Praise| these kind of men have, may more justly be censured? 65 Praise| lest perhaps otherwise I may seem to have foolishly pleased 66 Praise| where a man wants matter, he may best frame some.” And to 67 Praise| perhaps their authority may be of small credit among 68 Praise| of some difficulty and it may be perhaps a little too 69 Praise| what is it in a manner they may not hope for success in, 70 Praise| that if so great doctors may be allowed this liberty, 71 Praise| allowed this liberty, you may the more reasonably pardon 72 Praise| let him be a fool that he may be wise.” And in Luke, Jesus 73 Praise| denies that this foolishness may be resembled to the uncertain 74 Praise| God. The reason perhaps may be this, that as princes 75 Praise| anything more foolish, if we may believe that proverb of 76 Praise| religion, though perhaps it may not be the same kind of 77 Praise| money as superfluity that may be well spared; or if they 78 Praise| with its bodily weight, may be the more intent upon 79 Praise| conversations that they may grow up to a newness of 80 Praise| organs, without doubt you may saytis downright madness 81 Praise| proverb, “Sometimes a fool may speak a word in season,”


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