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It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
No one respects a talent that is concealed.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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.
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Prevention is better than cure.
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
The desire to write grows with writing.
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.
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
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Desiderius Erasmus
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28 October, 1466
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12 July, 1536
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Netherlands
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