Quoting%20commentary for Bava Metzia 167:5
ולמה להו לאהדורי לה והא כתיב (משלי כו, ד) אל תען כסיל כאולתו שלא להוציא לעז על בניהם
Others say, they answered her thus: 'Love suppresses the flesh.' But why should they have answered her at all; is it not written, Answer not a fool according to his folly?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prov. XXVI, 4. ');"><sup>4</sup></span>
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