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Quotation from The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
“For physic, especially as it is now professed by most men, is nothing but a branch of flattery, no less than rhetoric”
The Praise of Folly, The arts and sciences, trans. John Wilson (1668)
Ranking the learned professions, Folly says the physician is valued above divines and philosophers, the more so the more ignorant and impudent he is.
Citation: "For physic, especially as it is now professed by most men, is nothing but a branch of flattery, no less than rhetoric" — Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, The arts and sciences, trans. John Wilson (1668). (id erasmus-praise-of-folly-q4)
