Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
