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

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.

You worry whether the drought will end. It is far better that you pray that God may water your mind lest virtue wither away in it. You are greatly concerned with money that is lost or being wasted, or you worry about the advance of old age. I think it much to be desired that you provide first of all for the needs of your soul.

There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.