Folly
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
folly
in the texts
Poems
Folly as an abstract concept, personified in Nash's full-length portrait placed between the busts of Newton (Wisdom) and Pope (Wit).
The picture plac'd the bust between, Adds to the thought much strength, Wisdom, and Wit, are little seen, But Folly's at full length.
On Virtues and Vices
The vice of the reasoning part, opposite of practical wisdom
The vice of the reasoning part is folly;
Folly is the vice of the reasoning part, the cause of living badly.
There follow upon folly inexperience, ignorance, lack of self-control, awkwardness, and forgetfulness.
Letters to Lucilius
The condition of being subject to passions and masters, contrasted with the freedom of wisdom.
Folly is a lowly thing, abject, sordid, slavish, subject to many passions, and to the cruellest.