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One Quotes by Desiderius Erasmus
- 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,…
- I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with…
- 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…
- 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…
- For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and…
- In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
- No one respects a talent that is concealed.
- 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.
- 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…
- Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to…
- In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.
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