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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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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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Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.
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The desire to write grows with writing.
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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.
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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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Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
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It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
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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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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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Fools are without number.
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By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
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Time takes away the grief of men.
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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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You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
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By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.
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Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of Sophists to fight the Turks and Saracens instead of sending those armies of dull-witted soldiers with whom they've long been carrying on war with no result.
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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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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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman
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