Desiderius Erasmus quotes

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. (Desiderius Erasmus)
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Desiderius Erasmus
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
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In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
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I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors after that, I shall buy clothes.
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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
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No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.
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I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
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There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
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Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity. (Desiderius Erasmus)
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
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You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
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Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
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I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.
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It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
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Fortune favors the audacious.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
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Fools are without number.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. (Desiderius Erasmus)
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Desiderius Erasmus
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
Desiderius Erasmus
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus