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Quotation from The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus

“Now, by Pollux, my friends, you have rather killed than preserved me in thus forcing me from my pleasure”

Desiderius Erasmus (spoken by The deluded Greek in Horace (quoted by Folly))

The Praise of Folly, The two kinds of madness, trans. John Wilson (1668)

A man who applauded an empty theatre complains after his friends and physicians cure him; Folly adds that the curers needed hellebore more than he did.

Citation: "Now, by Pollux, my friends, you have rather killed than preserved me in thus forcing me from my pleasure" — Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, The two kinds of madness, trans. John Wilson (1668). (id erasmus-praise-of-folly-q6)

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