But I am, at heart, with Quintilian in deprecating flogging under any conditions. If then you ask, “What is to be done with boys who respond to no other spur?” My answer is: “What would you do if an ox or an ass strayed into your classroom?” turn him out to the plough or the […]
Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
If wisdom should come to popes, what comforts it would deprive them of!
When I get a little money, I buy books; And if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
