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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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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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I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
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From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.
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They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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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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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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Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.
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There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
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Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.
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...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.
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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 more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
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