Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
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I talk of cheese, you of chalk.
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If a man get a fever, or a pain in the head with overdrinking, we are subject to curse the wine, when we should rather impute it to ourselves for the excess.
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If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you.
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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[Blindness]
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Indeed, a constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery.
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It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions.
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It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
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It is in vain to gather virtues without humility; for the Spirit of God delighteth to dwell in the hearts of the humble.
[Humility]
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
[Happiness]
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It is the friendship of books that has made me perfectly happy.
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It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt.
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It is well known that a one-eyed man can rule among the blind.
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
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It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
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Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived, and apt to have ague fits.
[Love]
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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
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Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
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Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.
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