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Erasmus of Rotterdam Quotes

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Dutch humanist and theologian

Nationality: Dutch
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Birth: 1466-1536
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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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.
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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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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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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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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 through
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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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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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
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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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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.
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Fools are without number.
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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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.
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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.
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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 entertain
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Your library is your paradise.
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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.
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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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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
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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 t
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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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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
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