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Desiderius Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus
Age: 69 †
Born: 1466
Born: November 6
Died: 1536
Died: July 12
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Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
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There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
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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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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
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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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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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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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I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.
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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 main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
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He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.
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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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Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
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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 opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
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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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...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.
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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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