In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus

“And what is all this life but a kind of comedy, wherein men walk up and down in one another’s disguises and act their respective parts, till the property man brings them back to the attiring house. And yet he often orders a different dress, and makes him that came but just now off in the robe of a king put on the rags of a beggar. Thus are all things represented by counterfeit, and yet without this there was no living.”

-Desiderius Erasmus