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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 highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly
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I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.
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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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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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Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
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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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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.
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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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Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
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Prevention is better than cure.
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There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
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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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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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I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
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Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will.
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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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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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