“The working of miracles is old and out-dated; to teach the people is too laborious; to interpret scripture is to invade the prerogative of the schoolmen; to pray is too idle; to shed tears is cowardly and unmanly; to fast… — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
“I hate one that remembers what's done over the cup.” — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus 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 should otherwise have been too dull and inactive, that creator, who out of clay first tempered and made us up, put into the composition of our humanity more than a pound of passions to an ounce of reason;… — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share
“tis the part of a truly prudent man not to be wise beyond his condition, but either to take no notice of what the… — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
“I know this is overused...but it is accurate! When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I… — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
“The working of miracles is old and out-dated; to teach the people is too laborious; to interpret scripture is to invade the prerogative of… — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
“It is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all.” — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
“Just as nothing is more foolish than misplaced wisdom, so too, nothing is more imprudent than perverse prudence. And surely it is perverse not… — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
