QUOTES by Desiderius Erasmus
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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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"And so when the whole man will be outside himself, and happy for no reason except that he is so outside himself, he will enjoy some of the ineffable share in the supreme good which draws everything into itself."
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"When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes."
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"Tis the part of a truly prudent man not to be wise beyond his condition, but either to take no notice of what the world does, or run with it for company"
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"I know this is overused...but it is accurate! When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
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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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"How do you like our England, you will say? Believe me when I assure you that I have never liked anything as much before."
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"Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them."
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"By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."
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"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."
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"...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them."
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"It is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all."
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"Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known."
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"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."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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?"
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"Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is."
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"What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism."
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"Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly."
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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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"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."
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"Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another."
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