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Quotation from The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
“For all madness is not miserable, or Horace had never called his poetical fury a beloved madness”
The Praise of Folly, The two kinds of madness, trans. John Wilson (1668)
Answering the Stoics, Folly separates the destructive madness sent by the Furies from her own pleasant delusion.
Citation: "For all madness is not miserable, or Horace had never called his poetical fury a beloved madness" — Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, The two kinds of madness, trans. John Wilson (1668). (id erasmus-praise-of-folly-q5)
