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Desiderius Erasmus Inspirational Quotes (70)

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I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.
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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
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The desire to write grows with writing.
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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
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The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
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It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
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They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.
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When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.
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Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.
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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman
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Time takes away the grief of men.
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
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Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
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The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly
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A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
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He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.
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Fortune favors the audacious.
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Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.
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Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
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I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.
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