Quotes about Desiderius Erasmus

Fools are without number.

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

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

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Concealed talent brings no reputation.

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

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

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

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

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Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed...

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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to...

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Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown,...

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