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Prevention is better than cure.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus
Age: 69 †
Born: 1466
Born: November 6
Died: 1536
Died: July 12
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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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When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.
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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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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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Frugality is a handsome income.
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Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
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Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
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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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He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.
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Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
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War is delightful for those who don't know it
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It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
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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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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 wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
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