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• Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior

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  War, Unjust

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• From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.

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  Long, Soul, World

  Desiderius Erasmus (2016). “In Praise of Folly”, p.85, Desiderius Erasmus

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• They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

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  Army, May, Six

  Desiderius Erasmus (1959). “The Praise of Folly”

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• God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

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  Leadership, Courage, Physicians

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• Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

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  Acquisition, Noble, Dominion

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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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  Mother, Nature, Heart

  Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.156, University of Toronto Press

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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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  Baby, Kissing, Men

  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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• They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

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  Darkness, Atheism, Existence

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• Retain the wind by compressing the belly.

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  Wind, Belly

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• War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

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  Sweet, Peace, War

  Desiderius Erasmus (1962). “Handbook of the Militant Christian”

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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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  Philosophy, Power, Hands

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

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• I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.

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  Clothes, Greek, Attention

  Desiderius Erasmus (1974). “The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1 to 141, 1484-1500”, p.252, University of Toronto Press

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• Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of Sophists to fight the Turks and Saracens instead of sending those armies of dull-witted soldiers with whom they've long been carrying on war with no result.

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  Christian, War, Fighting

  Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.160, University of Toronto Press

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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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  Fear, Prosperity, Pessimism

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• 'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

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  Devil, Matter, Easier

  Desiderius Erasmus (1733). “All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things”, p.202

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• Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

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  Eye, Special, Causes

  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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• 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 the passions.

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  Passion, Men, Feelings

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

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• It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.

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  Age, Youth, Beats

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• Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

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  Ideas, Meditation, Mind

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.16, University of Toronto Press

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• War is delightful for those who don't know it

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  Military, War, Delightful

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• In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.

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  Teacher, Husband, Party

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• Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

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  Sound, Philosopher, Affair

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• Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.

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  War, Lovely, Knows

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• The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

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  Eye, Religion, Atheism

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• [Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.

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  May, Influence, Affair

  Attributed to Desiderius Erasmus by Senator J. William Fulbright, "In Need of a Consensus," Penrose Memorial Lecture, delivered to the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1961.

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