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Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus
Age: 69 †
Born: 1466
Born: November 6
Died: 1536
Died: July 12
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