The pursuit of happiness without virtue is the pursuit of a ... - Desiderius Erasmus

"The pursuit of happiness without virtue is the pursuit of a shadow."

Desiderius Erasmus Happiness

Humanist Scholar Theologian Dutch 1466–1536

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