“For what is more foolish than for a man to study nothing else than how to please himself? To make himself the object of his own admiration? And yet, what is there that is either delightful or taking, nay rather… — Erasmus Copy Share Image
“what is all this life but a kind of comedy, wherein men walk up and down in one another's disguises and act their respective parts, till the property-man brings them back to the attiring house. And yet he often orders… — Erasmus Copy Share Image
“For what is more foolish than for a man to study nothing else than how to please himself? To make himself the object of… — Erasmus Copy Share Image
“what is all this life but a kind of comedy, wherein men walk up and down in one another's disguises and act their respective… — Erasmus Copy Share Image
“A remarkable thing happens in the experience of my fools: from them not only true things, but even sharp reproaches, will be listened to;… — Erasmus Copy Share Image
“And of these, a great part build so much on their ceremonies and petty traditions of men that they think one heaven is too… — Erasmus Copy Share Image
“When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.” — Erasmus Copy Share Image
“But, to return to my design, what power was it that drew those stony, oaken, and wild people into cities but flattery? For nothing… — Erasmus Copy Share Image
