The type of man devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children. I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
If wisdom should come to popes, what comforts it would deprive them of!
When I get a little money, I buy books; And if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
