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Desiderius Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus
Age: 69 †
Born: 1466
Born: November 6
Died: 1536
Died: July 12
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Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.
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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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I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
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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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...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.
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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
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You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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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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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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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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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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Frugality is a handsome income.
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The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly
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The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
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The desire to write grows with writing.
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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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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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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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