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Off 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,…
- It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
- Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks,…
- You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off…
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