A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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Concealed talent brings no reputation.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

Fools are without number.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

Fortune favors the audacious.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

He who allows oppression shares the crime.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

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.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

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.
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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.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

The desire to write grows with writing.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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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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To know nothing is the happiest life.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
- Desiderius Erasmus Quote