Your library is your paradise.

Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

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

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

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will...

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will...

To know nothing is the happiest life.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

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.

Fortune favors the audacious

Fortune favors the audacious

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

Prevention is better than cure.

Prevention is better than cure.

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.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it

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

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

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...

An Englishman's home is his castle

An Englishman's home is his castle

Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken

Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken

I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it

I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it