Quote by Michel Foucault

“Erasmus says that you should praise a ruler even for qualities he does not have. For the flattery gives him to think. And the…

— Hilary Mantel

“At the same time he could hardly believe what he had been reading. It struck him as verging on madness. This wild confession, this…

— Barry Unsworth

“It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical transition, he…

— Martin Luther

“In my early youth - he would later write to his friend, the philosopher Constantin Noica- seduced me solely the libraries and the brothels.”

— Emil Cioran

“In the softest little voice he said, “This slave is beneath your attention.” In Akielos, submission was an art, and the slave was the…

— C.S. Pacat

“She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object…

— Angela Carter

“The limitations of necessity made him free. He loved the necessity which exercised his faculties, and brought before his vision what he loved to…

— Julius Meier-Graefe

from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in…

— Martin Luther

“There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to one other…

— Elif Shafak

“It was a simple lesson, really. He could never, ever allow misplaced ideals to seduce him. He would not employ death as a tool.”

— Bonnie Dee

Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it while he…

— Stefan Zweig

“The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted…

— Joyce Cary