Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share
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… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share
A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share
Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of Sophists to… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share
From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share
Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share
So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share
By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share
Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share
