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Top 100 Desiderius Erasmus Quotes (2025 Update)

Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Prevention is better than cure.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Your library is your paradise.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Bidden or unbidden, God is present.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Eagles don’t catch flies.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Fortune favors the audacious.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “No one respects a talent that is concealed.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “The desire to write grows with writing.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “He who allows oppression shares the crime.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Don’t give your advice before you are called upon.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “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.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “There is no joy in possession without sharing.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Dulce bellum inexpertis. – War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “He who doesn’t sin, is the greatest sinner of all.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Frugality is a handsome income.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “War is sweet to those who haven’t tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “To know nothing is the happiest life.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Jupiter, not wanting man’s life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason – you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Concealed talent brings no reputation.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he’ll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Man is to man either a god or a wolf.”
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