“So when I need one, I’ll have TWO!” pretty much sums up my entire philosophy towards the acquisition of material items.
That being said, Erasmus of Rotterdam was a Mensch. While Martin Luther and the Pope were busy calling everybody who slightly disagreed with them the Antichrist and the Instantiation of All Worldly Evil, Erasmus was just kicking back, weighing both sides of the issue and coming to the conclusion that, in fact, in all likelihood, the Antichrist had better things to do than engage in pamphlet wars over transubstantiation and infant baptism.
In a century of megalomaniacal dicks, Erasmus was hardly a condescending, self-hating, braying ass at all. And that’s saying something.
– Count Dolby von Luckner