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First Quotes by Desiderius Erasmus
- 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…
- 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…
- Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug…
- You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
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