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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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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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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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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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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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The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
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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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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
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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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They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
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Prevention is better than cure.
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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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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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The desire to write grows with writing.
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The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
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From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.
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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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