I have trouble with the Latin quotations in it, but I like it anyway. I don't actually know him well in real life, but reading his book makes me feel like I do. Most of what I know about the ancient philosophers comes from there, since he is very learned about them. It never paid much attention to my tutors on these subjects when I was young. Of course, in pursuit of the right to practice that properly I have sacked churches and killed monks and stolen what I needed to keep an unpaid company alive in the field.
Soldiers are practical men.
I am not gratuitously cruel, however, and have never tortured anyone for ransom or any other reason. I still feel bad about how that village got burnt. My mother saw to it. There was a joyous exhilaration in it when I was young. The corruption and injustice of the Church would vex anyone, and the feeling of freedom to read and interpret God's own word is hard to explain to this generation.