false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174870027m/449017.jpg 449017 31 A satire on the pretensions of Erasmus's contemporaries in the Church and philosophy The Penguin Classics version: A. H. T. Levi (Editor, Introduction), Betty Radice (Translator) 2365807 1511 Praise of Folly (Penguin Classics) total:406|5:123|4:139|3:106|2:32|1:6| 406 1559 630 32 5 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 14:51:02 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 14:35:29 -0800 2009
This was said by Theodore Rubin, but it w...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 06 09:43:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 18:33:03 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 09:43:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 05:00:43 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 03:34:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 06:07:04 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 06:13:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Nov 24 15:13:51 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 15:15:49 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Apr 08 15:30:36 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 15:30:57 -0700 2009
"Letafetlerini yalnız tabii hallerine borçlu olan şeylerin, sanatın yabancı süsleri altında gizlenen şeylerden pek üstün olduğu her bakımdan ne kadar doğrudur."

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But it's women's folly which makes them delight men.

Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions.

A man's conduct is...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 05 19:25:44 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 15:50:07 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jan 11 13:10:35 -0800 2008 Sat Jun 14 09:07:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Dec 03 11:50:13 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 11:50:48 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Feb 24 21:21:26 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 21:21:26 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Jan 09 12:46:40 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 12:47:23 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 10 10:39:01 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 10:39:17 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Mon Mar 30 21:24:15 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 21:24:39 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Aug 17 13:05:58 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 13:39:18 -0700 2007
Of course, I don't agree with many of his premises. But that's because he comes from a vernacular viewpoint that regards "sin" as a driving f...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jan 08 16:06:22 -0800 2009 Fri May 01 20:09:17 -0700 2009 Its hard to believe that Erasmus was a devote Catholic when he wrote ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Tue Apr 01 14:43:52 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 14:51:13 -0700 2008 1. "God hath chosen the foolish things of this world."
2. "If man have a crooked, ill-favored wife, who yet in his eye may stand in competition with Venus, is it not the same as if she were truly beautiful?"
3. "Christian religion seems to have...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 03 17:59:52 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 00:48:33 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Apr 11 21:06:30 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 21:07:11 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=449017