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Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus
Age: 69 †
Born: 1466
Born: November 6
Died: 1536
Died: July 12
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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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The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
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Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
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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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They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.
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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
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He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.
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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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A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
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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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It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
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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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Prevention is better than cure.
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Frugality is a handsome income.
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Fortune favors the audacious.
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
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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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He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.
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