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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus
Age: 69 †
Born: 1466
Born: November 6
Died: 1536
Died: July 12
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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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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