Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul. The inhabitants of my small country, Costa Rica,… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
“But I am well aware of the excuse which men, ever ingenious in devising mischief to themselves as well as others, offer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Stoics define wisdom to be conducted by reason, and folly nothing else but the being hurried by passion, lest our life… — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
