SC - 16th century maxim

[Ron and Laurene Wells]

>Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:40:34 +0100
>From: Thomas Gloning <gloning at Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
>Subject: SC - Apicius
>
><< I have to ask how you manage to gain access to so many Apicius texts?
>Do you have a private or public library at your disposal? >>
>
>Both. The ones I quoted I bought in bookstores or at antiquarian
>booksellers. I love(d) to stroll around in antiquarian bookstores for
>some years and now and then I found something interesting. In my earlier
>years I followed a maxim that can be traced to the 16th century humanist
>Erasmus of Rotterdam; it goes something like this:
>   "In the first place buy important books. If there is anything left,
>    you can buy clothes and food."
>(Not a good quotation for a cooks' list, agreed...)
>

Hey!  I really LIKE this saying!  Being that just a few months ago I
started a business selling DK books, I guess I might be partial.  Thanks
for sharing!

- -Laurene