The wish to hurt, the moment of complete power over another,... - Desiderius Erasmus

"The wish to hurt, the moment of complete power over another, is this not the fantasy of every man?"

Desiderius Erasmus

Humanist Scholar Theologian Dutch 1466–1536

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