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• Frugality is a handsome income.

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  Income, Handsome, Frugality

  Desiderius Erasmus (1733). “All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things”, p.475

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• No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

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  Wise, Men, Sides

  Desiderius Erasmus (2012). “Colloquies of Erasmus,”, p.550, tredition

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• There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.

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  Sects

  Desiderius Erasmus (1964). “The "Adages" of Erasmus: A Study with Translations”, Cambridge University Press

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• To know nothing is the happiest life.

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  Life, Inspire, Live By

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• Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

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  Encounters, Looks, Christianity

  "Erasmus of Rotterdam". Book by Stefan Zweig translated by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul, 1934.

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• By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Orthodoxy, Heresy

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• Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

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  Book, Library, Guilty

  Desiderius Erasmus (1974). “The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1 to 141, 1484-1500”, p.115, University of Toronto Press

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• Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.

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  Love, Good Health, Short Lived

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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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  Men, Differences, People

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• Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

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  Eye, Rocks, Self

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• A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

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  Lying, Talking, Knowing

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• 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?

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  Missing You, Plato, Real

  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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• It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.

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  Christian, Charity, Being The Best

  Desiderius Erasmus (1733). “All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things”, p.532

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• Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

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  Gold, Pearls, Sand

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• Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

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  Running, Flower, Reflection

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• The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.

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  Men, Village, Six

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• War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

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  Peace, Military, War

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• Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

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  Hate, Prodigies, Shoulders

  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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• Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

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  Body, Shapes, Plant

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• As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring a flea's foot and marveling at a midge's humming, he learned nothing about the affairs of ordinary life.

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  Life, Wise, Laughter

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• Of two evils choose the least.

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  Two, Evil, Two Evils

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• Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman

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  Prayer, Heaven, May

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• Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

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  Church Music, Modern, Music Is

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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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  Choices, Chance, Should

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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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  Powerful, Doctors, Ignorant

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

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