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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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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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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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A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
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The desire to write grows with writing.
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Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
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Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
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When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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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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Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
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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 main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
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So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.
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Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.
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Eagles don't catch flies.
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Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
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They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.
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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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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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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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