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Desiderius Erasmus Inspirational Quotes (70)

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Fools are without number.
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By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
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Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
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Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.
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Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?
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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
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So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.
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God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.
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There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
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Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.
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I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
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Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
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A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.
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It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
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Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
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They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
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From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.
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Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
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