Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
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No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.)
[Life]
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No one respects a talent that is concealed.
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Not even the gods can withstand necessity.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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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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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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Of two evils choose the least.
[Evil]
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Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian
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Oh, the incomparable contrivance of Nature, who has ordered all things in so even a method that wherever she has been less bountiful in her gifts, there she makes it up with a larger dose of self-love, which supplies the former deficits and makes all even.
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Prevention is better than cure.
[Sickness]
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Procrastination brings loss, delay danger.
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Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions--money, gems, plate, noble mansions and dominion--should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.
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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
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The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears.
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The desire to write grows with writing.
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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 long as there are men.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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The habit does not make the monk.
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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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