Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.
Desiderius ErasmusNow I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Desiderius ErasmusIt is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Desiderius ErasmusOur determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
Desiderius Erasmus