Showing posts with label The Praise of Folly. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Daily Dose

From The Praise of Folly, by Desiderius Erasmus, translated by Hoyt Hopewell Hudson

VERACITY

"Veracity, you know, has a certain authentic power of giving pleasure, if nothing offensive goes with it: but this the gods have granted only to fools."

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