Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

Dutch - Philosopher October 26, 1466 - July 12, 1536

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

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Your library is your paradise.

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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

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The desire to write grows with writing.

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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 of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

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Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

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