Origen, of course, is also a great advocate of the allegorical approach. Yet I think you will have to admit that our modem theologians either despise… - Erasmus

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

It might be wiser for me to avoid Camarina and say nothing of theologians. They are a proud, susceptible race. They will smother me under six hundred dogmas. They will call me heretic and bring thunderbolts out of their arsenals, where they keep whole magazines of them for their enemies. Still they are Folly's servants, though they disown their mistress. They live in the third heaven, adoring their own persons and disdaining the poor crawlers upon earth. They are surrounded with a bodyguard of definitions, conclusions, corollaries, propositions explicit, and propositions implicit. ...They will tell you how the world was created. They will show you the crack where Sin crept in and corrupted mankind.

We must learn how to imitate Cicero from Cicero himself. Let us imitate him as he imitated others.