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Men Quotes by Desiderius Erasmus
- Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have…
- As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man,…
- Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent…
- No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
- Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
- Time takes away the grief of men.
- I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one…
- Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
- Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
- Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the…
- Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
- By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
- 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 as…
- 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…
- At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them,…
- It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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