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The desire to write grows with writing.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus
Age: 69 †
Born: 1466
Born: November 6
Died: 1536
Died: July 12
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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 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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It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
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Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will.
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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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Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.
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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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He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.
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The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
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The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
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Eagles don't catch flies.
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Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
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Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of Sophists to fight the Turks and Saracens instead of sending those armies of dull-witted soldiers with whom they've long been carrying on war with no result.
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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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Prevention is better than cure.
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A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
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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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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
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Time takes away the grief of men.
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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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