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Fortune favors the audacious.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus
Age: 69 †
Born: 1466
Born: November 6
Died: 1536
Died: July 12
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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
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I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
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It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
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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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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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It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
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Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
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Fools are without number.
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Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.
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The desire to write grows with writing.
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There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
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Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman
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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
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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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The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
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Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.
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