Desiderius Erasmus, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, theologian.
"Prince of Humanists"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderius_Erasmus
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Alan: I share Erasmus' scholarly orientation and am baffled by how much time and money people spend keeping their lives superficially "tidy."
"Looking good."
To what extent does this inordinate focus and expense represent the absence of "a life?"
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In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Women: Can't live with them, can't live without them.
Fortune favors the bold.
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
Fools are without number.
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Desiderius Erasmus, Wikiquote
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Desiderius_Erasmus
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