Nè consiglio d'uom sano Amor riceve.
Canto V, stanza 78 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Nè consiglio d'uom sano Amor riceve.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
“The everlasting and paternal wisdom saith, "Whoso heareth Me is not ashamed."”
Sermon IV : True Hearing
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Context: The everlasting and paternal wisdom saith, "Whoso heareth Me is not ashamed." If he is ashamed of anything he is ashamed of being ashamed. Whoso worketh in Me sineth not. Whoso confesseth Me and feareth Me, shall have eternal life. Whoso will hear the wisdom of the Father must dwell deep, and abide at home, and be at unity with himself.
“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference.”
J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.
Pt. II, ch. 4
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
Variant: I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference.
“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.”
“The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 12
“All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.”
Letter to B. A. Hinsdale, (21 April 1880), in The Nation's Hero — In Memoriam : The Life of James Abram Garfield (1881) by J. M. Bundy, p. 216 http://books.google.com/books?id=mlTUAAAAMAAJ
1880s
“All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.”
James A. Garfield, as quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds : A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896) edited by Louis Klopsch, p. 116
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