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Your library is your paradise. (Desiderius Erasmus)
No one respects a talent that is concealed. View quote
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It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. View quote
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Prevention is better than cure. View quote
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Don't give your advice before you are called upon. View quote
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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism. View quote
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. View quote
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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly. View quote
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The desire to write grows with writing. View quote
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To know nothing is the happiest life. View quote
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A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie. (Desiderius Erasmus)
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. View quote
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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. View quote
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Concealed talent brings no reputation. View quote
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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. View quote
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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men. View quote
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Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. View quote
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Man is to man either a god or a wolf. View quote
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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. View quote
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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. View quote
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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. (Desiderius Erasmus)
Time takes away the grief of men. View quote
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Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? View quote
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. View quote
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Most Christians are superstitious rather than pious, and except for the name of Christ differ hardly at all from superstitious pagans. View quote
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