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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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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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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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Prevention is better than cure.
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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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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
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By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.
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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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Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
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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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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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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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A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
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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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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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Fortune favors the audacious.
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He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.
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A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.
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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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The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
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