Peace Quotes by Desiderius Erasmus

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

— Desiderius Erasmus

War is delightful for those who don't know it

— Desiderius Erasmus

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

Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.

— Desiderius Erasmus

Eagles don't catch flies.

— Desiderius Erasmus

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

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

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

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

— Desiderius Erasmus

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

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

Retain the wind by compressing the belly.

— Desiderius Erasmus

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

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

— Desiderius Erasmus

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