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Desiderius Erasmus quotes
“In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“Prevention is better than cure.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“To know nothing is the happiest life.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“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.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“No one respects a talent that is concealed.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“He who allows oppression shares the crime.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“Concealed talent brings no reputation.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“The desire to write grows with writing.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“Your library is your paradise.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“Humility is truth.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“Time takes away the grief of men.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“Fortune favors the audacious.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“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
“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
“Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“Man is to man either a god or a wolf.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“Fools are without number.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“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
“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“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
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