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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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Fools are without number.
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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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By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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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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Time takes away the grief of 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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Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.
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War is delightful for those who don't know it
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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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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
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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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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
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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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Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.
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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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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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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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