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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 (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you’ve trained them (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
Ask 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 public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people’s entertainment (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
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 (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short lived, and apt to have ague fits (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
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 (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
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 (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
The 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 living nor aware of death (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
Experience is the common schoolhouse of fools and ill men. Men of wit and honesty be otherwise instructed (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
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 (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
Of how much more passion than reason has Jupiter composed us? Putting in, as one would say, scarce half an ounce to a pound (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
From hence, no question, has sprung an observation... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
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 (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
It is in vain to gather virtues without humility; for the Spirit of God delighteth to dwell in the hearts of the humble (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)
There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect (Desiderius Erasmus Quotes)