Quotes about Desiderius Erasmus

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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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

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Your library is your paradise.

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Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others...

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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from...

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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only...

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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

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

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