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Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “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.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “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.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn’t -it’s human.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “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.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “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.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “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.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive...”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Time takes away the grief of men.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men’s judgments of one another.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato’s cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don’t know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “By burning Luther’s books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men’s minds of him.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “If you look at history you’ll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Fools are without number.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Ask a wise man to dinner and he’ll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you’ll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people’s entertainment.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “What passes out of one’s mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Of two evils choose the least.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn’t have it, to fear and suspect the worst.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “It’s the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “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.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “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.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly – because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you’ve trained them.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “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.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “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.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Retain the wind by compressing the belly.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “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?”
Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.”
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