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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.

Desiderius Erasmus

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Desiderius Erasmus
Age: 69 †
Born: 1466
Born: November 6
Died: 1536
Died: July 12
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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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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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It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
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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.
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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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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Eagles don't catch flies.
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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.
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Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.
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There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
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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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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
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The desire to write grows with writing.
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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Fortune favors the audacious.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
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