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Desiderius Erasmus

Birthday: October 26, 1466
Deathday: July 12, 1536
Type: Philosopher

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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is...

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that...

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of...

Concealed talent brings no reputation....

Don't give your advice before you are called upon....

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young...

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable...

Fools are without number....

Fortune favors the audacious....

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself....

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by...

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor,...

He who allows oppression shares the crime....

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can...

Humility is truth....

I doubt if a single individual could be found from...

If you keep thinking about what you want to do...

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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is...

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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man...

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou...

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the...

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck...

Man is to man either a god or a wolf....

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more...

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several...

No one respects a talent that is concealed....

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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that...

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a...

Prevention is better than cure....

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome...

The desire to write grows with writing....

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine...

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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just...

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return...

There are some people who live in a dream world,...

Time takes away the grief of men....

To know nothing is the happiest life....

War is delightful to those who have had no experience...

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it....

What difference is there, do you think, between those in...

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty...

When I get a little money I buy books; and...

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Your library is your paradise....

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