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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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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 the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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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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Fortune favors the audacious.
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Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.
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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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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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Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.
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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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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
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Eagles don't catch flies.
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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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Frugality is a handsome income.
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