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What a relaxed life is that which flees the worldly clamour, and follows the hidden path down which have gone the few wise men there have been in the world!

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The chief characteristic of folly is that it mistakes itself for wisdom.

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Fray Luis de León

Fray Luis de León

Born: 1527
Died: August 23, 1591 (aged 64)
Bio: Luis de León, O.E.S.A., was a Spanish lyric poet, Augustinian friar, theologian and academic, active during the Spanish Golden Age.

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