Accomplished Quote by Stefan Zweig

“Erasmus says that you should praise a ruler even for qualities he does not have. For the flattery gives him to think. And the…

— Hilary Mantel

“At the same time he could hardly believe what he had been reading. It struck him as verging on madness. This wild confession, this…

— Barry Unsworth

“No seventeenth-century pedagogue would have publicly advised his disciple, as did Erasmus in his Dialogues, on the choice of a good prostitute.”

— Michel Foucault

“It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical transition, he…

— Martin Luther

from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in…

— Martin Luther

“Within a few moments he was immersed in his work. The evening before, he had caught up with the routine of his classwork; papers…

— John Williams

“There was a leap of joy in him, like a flame lighting up in a dark lantern. At this moment he believed it was…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“[Philosophers] are like a traveler passing through a field at night who in a momentary lightning flash sees far and wide, but the sight…

— John Calvin

“The Durhannians' countenance lifted as is the way of Hope. There was a village elder whose eyes flickered with the light of Understanding. We…

— Laurie Green Westlake

“Therefore the Way that is sagely within and kingly without has fallen into darkness and is no longer clearly perceived, has become shrouded and…

— Zhuangzi

“He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Humanists were people who wanted to return to ideas found in old Greek and Latin writing of Greece and Rome, written many centuries earlier.…

— Michael Mullett