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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
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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