Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Quotes

• There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

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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 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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• 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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• Prevention is better than cure.

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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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• 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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• No one respects a talent that is concealed.

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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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• Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

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• Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

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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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• 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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• It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

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• In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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• In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.

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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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• 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.

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• Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

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Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (56)

Birth:	28th October, 1466
Death:	12th July, 1536
Nationality:	Dutch
Profession:	Critic, Teacher, Theologian

About

Desiderius Erasmus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian. Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style. He was an early proponent of religious toleration, and enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists"; he has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists".

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