Folly
idea · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
folly · al-safah · al-ḥumq
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).
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Foolishness, ranked as the worst destitution, the cause of quarrel with truth, and remediable only by good company.
The striving to overcome the truth comes of the mastery of folly.
On Virtues and Vices
The vice of the reasoning part, opposite of practical wisdom
There follow upon folly inexperience, ignorance, lack of self-control, awkwardness, and forgetfulness.
Folly is the vice of the reasoning part, the cause of living badly.
The vice of the reasoning part is folly;
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.