Quotes By Desiderius Erasmus
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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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
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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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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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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
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