For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be… — 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 support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share
