"Yes," replied the Venetian, "there are I think three thousand, and not three dozen of them good for anything. As to those huge volumes of divinity, and those enormous collections of sermons, they are not all together worth one single page in Seneca; and I fancy you will readily believe that neither myself, nor anyone else, ever looks into them."
Igen, mondá a szenátor, de alig van három tucat jó; ami a beszédgyüjteményeket illeti, mindezek együttvéve nem érnek fel Seneca egyetlen lapjával s ami ezeket a vaskos theologiai müveket illeti, higyjétek el, hogy sohasem nyitom fel őket, sem én, sem senki.«