Quote

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Desiderius Erasmus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Desiderius Erasmus
Age: 69 †
Born: 1466
Born: November 6
Died: 1536
Died: July 12
Bible Translator
Essayist
Latinist
Philosopher
Priest
Teacher
Theologian
Translator
University Teacher
R'dam
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
Erasmus Von Rotterdam Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
Erasmus von Rotterdam
Erasmus Rotterdam
Portions
Speaking
Knowing
Talking
Lying
Good
Consist
Portion

More quotes by Desiderius Erasmus

Image
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
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.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
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.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
The desire to write grows with writing.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
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?
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
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.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
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.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
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.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
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.
Desiderius Erasmus
Image
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus