Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Quotes

• Fortune favors the audacious.

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• Fools are without number.

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• Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

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• Concealed talent brings no reputation.

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• By burning Luther’s books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men’s minds of him.

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• By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

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• A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

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• Women, can’t live with them, can’t live without them.

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• Time takes away the grief of men.

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• Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men’s judgments of one another.

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• It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

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• A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.

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• He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.

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• 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.

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• 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?

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• Don’t give your advice before you are called upon.

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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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