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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 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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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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Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.
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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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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 wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
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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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Fools are without number.
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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 identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.
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