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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus
Age: 69 †
Born: 1466
Born: November 6
Died: 1536
Died: July 12
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
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I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
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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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