What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

To know nothing is the happiest life

To know nothing is the happiest life

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even...

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even...

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

The desire to write grows with writing.

The desire to write grows with writing.

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

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

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear...

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear...

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what...

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what...

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

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

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who...

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who...

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

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

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

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

To know nothing is the happiest life.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others...

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others...