10 enlightening quotes by desiderius erasmus
- When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
- 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.
- Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
- The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
- It’s the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
- Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
- 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.
- 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.
- By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
- Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
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