20/02/19

Praise of Folly - Erasmus

Louis Vallon: Mort aux cons!

Charles De Gaulle: Vaste programme!

O tema é vasto e impossível de evitar quando se fala de coisas humanas; o tratamento é curioso: é um exercício satírico que nos mostra a tolice opcional e a natural, a que vem com o território. É mudar o que pode ser mudado e aceitar o que só pode ser assim. 

Between him therefore that truly is happy, and him that thinks himself so, there is no perceivable distinction; or if any, the fool has the better of it: first, because his happiness costs him less, standing him only in the price of a single thought; and then, secondly, because he has more fellow-companions and partakers of his good fortune: for no enjoyment is comfortable where the benefit is not imparted to others; nor is any one station of life desirable, where we can have no converse with persons of the same condition with ourselves: and yet this is the hard fate of wise men, who are grown so scarce, that like Phoenixes, they appear but one in an age. 

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