My readings in Greek all but crush my spirit; but I have no spare time and no means to purchase books or employ the services of a tutor. And with all this commotion to endure I have hardly enough to live on; and this is what I owe to my studies!"-Erasmus, letter to Jacob Batt, 1500.
The picture: Studies of the Hands of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Hans Holbein the Younger, 1523.
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