284 FOLLY FOLLY
Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.
La Rochefoucauld—Maximes. 209.
Un sot n'a pas assez d'6toffe pour Stre bon.
A fool has not material enough to be good.
La Rochefoucauld—Maximes. 387.
The right to be a cussed fool
Is safe from all devices human,
It's common (ez a gin'l rule)
To every critter born of woman.
LowELii—The Biglow Papers. Second Series.
No. 7. St. 16.
A fool! a fool! my coxcomb for a fool!
Mabston—Parasitaster.
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| text = I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe
The bosom of a friend will hold a secret
Mine own could not contain.
Masslngee—Unnatural Combat. Act V. Sc.
2.
Young men think old men fools, and old men
know young men to be so.
Quoted by Camden as a saying of Db. Metcalf.
Quantum est in rebus inane!
How much folly there is in human affairs.
Persius—Satires. I. 1.
An old doting fool, with one foot already in
the grave.
Plutarch—Morals. On the Training of
Children.
The rest on outside merit but presume,
Or serve (like other fools) to fill a room.
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| work = Dunciad.
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So by false learning is good sense defac'd;
Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow;
Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.
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| work = Essay on Criticism. Pt. II. L. 438.
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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| work = Essay on Criticism. Pt. III. L. 66.
The fool is happy that he knows no more.
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| work = Essay on Man.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it,
If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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| work = Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 15.
Die and endow a college or a cat.
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| work = Moral Essays. Ep. IU. To Bathurst.
L. 96.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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| work = Prologue to Satires. L. 84.
Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease,
Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.
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| work = Second Book of Horace. Ep.1I. L. 326.
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is
counted wise.
Proverbs. XVII. 28.
Every fool will be meddling.
Proverbs. XX. 3.
Answer a fool according to his folly.
Proverbs. XXVI. 5.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar
among wheat with a pestle, yet will not bis foolishness depart from him.
Proverbs. XXVII. 22.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
Psalms. XIV. 1; LIII. 1.
Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt, stulti eruditis
videntur.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools,
among the wise seem foolish.
Qulntilian. X. 7. 22.
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| text = <poem>After a man has sown his wild oats in the years
of his youth, he has still every year to get over a
few weeks and days of folly.
Richter—Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces.
Bk.H. Ch.V.
Stultus est qui fructus magnarum arborum
spectat, alt itudinem non metitur. .
He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty
trees, but does not measure their height.
Quintus Cubitus Rufus—De Rebus Gestis
Alexandri Magni. VII. 8.
Insipientis est dicere, Non putaram.
It is the part of a fool to say, I should not
have thought.
Scipio Afbicanus. See Cicero. De Off.
XXIII. 81. Valerius. Bk. VII. 2. 2.
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!
Scott—Bridal of Triermain. Canto I. St. 21.
Inter csetera mala hoc quoque habet
Stultitia semper incipit vivere.
Among other evils folly has also this, that
it is always beginning to live.
Seneca—Epistohe Ad Lucilium. 13.
Sir, for a quart d'icu he will sell the fee-simple
of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut
the entail from all remainders.
All's Well That Ends Well. Act. IV. Sc. 3.
L. 311.
A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest,
A motley fool; a miserable world!
As I do live by food, I met a fool;
Who laid him down and bask'd bin in the sun.
As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 12.
