Quotes about Desiderius Erasmus

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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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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