Madness states: “But just as Socrates taught in Plato's dialogue that we should create two Venuses by cutting one in two. … It is up to dialecticians to distinguish one folly from another” (Erasmus 38). This disillusioned madness is what Erasmus aims at through Madness throughout the entire text. The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church are the “most illustrious disciples of Folly” (Erasmus 87). Erasmus is keen to point out that “the first founders of religion were great admirers of simplicity” (Erasmus 83). What does this have to do with Silenus? Simple. The point Erasmus is trying to make is that the Roman Catholic Church is very much like a Silenus where it may seem ugly and grotesque on the outside but on the inside you might find a rare inner truth that can lead to something