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Quotation from The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
“And by how much the nearer they approach to this old age, by so much they grow backward into the likeness of children, until like them they pass from life to death, without any weariness of the one, or sense of the other”
The Praise of Folly, Folly's benefits: old age and second childhood, trans. John Wilson (1668)
Folly claims that her gift of forgetfulness turns the decrepit old into 'twice children' and spares them the burden of age.
Citation: "And by how much the nearer they approach to this old age, by so much they grow backward into the likeness of children, until like them they pass from life to death, without any weariness of the one, or sense of the other" — Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, Folly's benefits: old age and second childhood, trans. John Wilson (1668). (id erasmus-praise-of-folly-q3)
