Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

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• Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

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  Book, Important, Quality

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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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  Men, Deception, Mind

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

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  Education, Wisdom, Lying

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• Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires.

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  Country, Men, Law

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

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  Inspirational, Uplifting, Light Life

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• The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

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  Elements, Want, Chiefs

  "Worship at the temple of Folly" by Nicholas Lezard, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• He who allows oppression shares the crime.

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  Perseverance, Freedom, Democracy

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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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  Nature, Believe, Ignorance

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• Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

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  Time, Determination, Persistence

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Money

  Desiderius Erasmus' letter to Jacob Batt, April 12, 1500.

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• In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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  Wisdom, Kings, Men

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.276, University of Toronto Press

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• War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

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  Sweet, Peace, War

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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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  Church, One Day

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• There is no joy in possession without sharing.

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  Change, Caring, Joy

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• A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

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  Wisdom, Overcoming, Nails

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• By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

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  Jesus Christ, Made, Mankind

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• Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

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  Giving, Advice

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• The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

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  Degrees, Bliss, Form

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• No one respects a talent that is concealed.

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  Inspirational, Genius, Talent

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• He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Sin

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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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  Play, Actors, Criminal Mind

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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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  Positive, Happiness, Being Yourself

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• Fools are without number.

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  Numbers, Fool

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• Fortune favors the audacious.

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  Favors, Fortune, Audacious

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• Your library is your paradise.

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  Education, Library, Paradise

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