Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

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

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

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...

Time takes away the grief of men.

Time takes away the grief of men.

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

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

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not...

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not...

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures,...

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures,...

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery...

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery...

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the...

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the...

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

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

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

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it

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

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

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing...

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing...

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free...

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free...

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

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.

Fortune favors the audacious.

Fortune favors the audacious.