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The Fool (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠blown about by every impression from outside, Seneca says, letting them mingle unexamined with his own desires and illusions until he cannot tell world from wish.

The Fool (n.) lets ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠present goods slip by while fretting over the future; the sensible man keeps even the goods he no longer has, through memory.

A Fool (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the old farces is comedy to the second degree — the deception of deception, who speaks love to lovers and the truth of life to the young.

A Fool (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠his innocent idiocy already holds intact the knowledge the wise glimpse only in fragments: the crystal ball empty to all others is full in his eyes.

The Fool (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠scattered in time: he remembers nothing, lets his life drift past, changes his way of living every day, and reaches old age without ever having thought about it.