All Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
- I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger. All
- Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them. Become Hardened
- In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant,… Alliance
- Fools are without number. Fool
- The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire… Common
- The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly Bliss
- Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six… All
- Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo… Any
- Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it. Bellum
- Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer’s mind… Barbs
- It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the… Adages
- Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine. Apothegms
- So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each,… Bee
- This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating… Children
- Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four… All
- Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is… Any
- Frugality is a handsome income. Frugality
- Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived. Beauty
- 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… All
- Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman Burden