Quotes about Desiderius Erasmus

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

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

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It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

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

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

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

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Humility is truth.

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

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He who allows oppression shares the crime.

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

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

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Your library is your paradise.

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