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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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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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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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Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
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Frugality is a handsome income.
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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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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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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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
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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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Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.
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The desire to write grows with writing.
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They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.
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Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
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War is delightful for those who don't know it
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