The Renaissance man of letters, Desiderius Erasmus; author, amongst many other things, of the most famous collections ever of wise sayings drawn from antiquity, the Adages.
It was to Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England, and author of Utopia, that Erasmus attributed one of his adages:
Omnium horarum homo,
‘A man for all hours’,
(or more popularly, ‘A man for all seasons’).
In his commentary on this adage, Erasmus says that such a man is one
‘who suits himself to seriousness and jesting alike, and whose company is always delightful.’
Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style. He was an early proponent of religious toleration, and enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists"; he has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists."
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