Desiderius ErasmusScarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior373Life
Desiderius ErasmusNowadays 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. ✨ D… ▶363Time
Desiderius ErasmusBy a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.353Humanity
Desiderius ErasmusThe 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 long as there are men. ✨ Desiderius Erasmus (1986). L… ▶353Death
Desiderius ErasmusGreat eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.364Truth
Desiderius ErasmusI put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.354Hope
Desiderius ErasmusGive light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.366Life
Desiderius ErasmusWar is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.322Philosophy
Desiderius ErasmusIt is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. ✨ Due Reverence: Antiques in the Possession of the American Philosophical Society. Book by … ▶378HumanityReading
Desiderius ErasmusYour library is your paradise.378Time
Desiderius ErasmusConcealed talent brings no reputation.301Life
Desiderius ErasmusYoung bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.367Death
Desiderius ErasmusFortune favours the audacious.367Philosophy
Desiderius ErasmusGreat abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.313Philosophy
Desiderius ErasmusThey may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic. ✨ Desiderius Erasmus (1959). The Praise of Folly291Life
Desiderius ErasmusAs an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever h… ▶324HumorLifeThought
Desiderius ErasmusWhat difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know wh… ▶369Thought
Desiderius Erasmus...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them. ✨ Desiderius Erasm… ▶314Thought
Desiderius ErasmusDon't give your advice before you are called upon.3710Reading
Desiderius ErasmusLuther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.304Truth
Desiderius ErasmusAsk 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 a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a publ… ▶304Humanity
Desiderius ErasmusThe nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of liv… ▶305DeathHumanityLife
Desiderius ErasmusReflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.294ReflectionThought
Desiderius ErasmusI 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 … ▶261Humanity
Desiderius ErasmusBefore you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.261Reading
Desiderius ErasmusThere is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect. ✨ Desiderius Erasmus (1964). The Adages of Erasmus: A Study with Translations, Ca… ▶316Love
Desiderius ErasmusBidden or unbidden, God is present.349Time
Desiderius ErasmusNothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.317Sadness
Desiderius ErasmusTo know nothing is the happiest life.339Life
Desiderius ErasmusI consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter … ▶241LoveReadingReflection
