Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

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A nail is driven out by another nail habit is overcome by habit.

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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

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When I get a little money, I buy books and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.

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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

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Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

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What passes out of ones mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

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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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Concealed talent brings no reputation.

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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

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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

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Fortune favors the audacious.

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To know nothing is the happiest life.

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Your library is your paradise.

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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

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Humility is truth.

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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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In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

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You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.

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War is delightful to those who have no experience with it.

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By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

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In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

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