stultitia

Ob inanes ditionum titulos, ob prereptum locum, ob interceptam mulierculam, vel quod e stultitia natum, vel e malitia, quod cupido dominandi, libido nocendi, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Lapis hic gestatus aut ebibitus prudentiam auget, nocturnos timores pellit; insanos hac sanavi, et quum lapidem abjecerint, erupit iterum stultitia.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Parum vero distat sapientia virorum a puerili, multo minus senum et mulierum, cum metu et superstitione et aliena stultitia et improbitate simplices agitantur.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

In order to sanctify the world, He has chosen what St. Paul calls the "folly of the cross": stultitia crucis 1 Cor 1:18.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

Ulysses was by Melanthius [2279] in Homer, be reviled, baffled, insulted over, for [2280] potentiorum stultitia perferenda est, and may not so much as mutter against it.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Insignis venatorum stultitia, et supervacania cura eorum, qui dum nimium venationi insistunt, ipsi abjecta omni humanitate in feras degenerant, ut Acteon, &c. 1873.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Sed praeter expectationem res evenit, Audax stultitia in eam irruit, &c. illa cedit irrisa, et plures hinc habet sectatores stultitia.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Horace, sometimes the debauched and sometimes the moral, has said — book i, ode 3 — that our folly extends to heaven itself: “Cœlum ipsum petimus stultitia.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Seneca declares that folly is its own burden, — omnis stultitia laborat fastidio sui, — a very true saying, with which may be compared the words of Jesus, the son of Sirach, The life of a fool is worse than death9.

The Wisdom of Life 2004

"Sapientia prima est stultitia caruisee, '" said Pruno.

Hardcase Simmons, Dan 2001