author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553)

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In all companies there are more fools than wise men, and the greater part always gets the better of the wiser.
In sooth, it is a shame to choose rather to be still borrowing in all places, from everybody, than to work and win.
Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
Time, which gnaws and diminishes all things else, augments and increases benefits, because a noble action of liberality done to a man of reason doth grow continually by his generously thinking of it and remembering it.

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