Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various … - Desiderius Erasmus

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When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.

Desiderius Erasmus

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?

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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

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It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

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God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

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Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

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