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Desiderius Erasmus (Philosopher)

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
— Desiderius Erasmus light
Your library is your paradise.
— Desiderius Erasmus you
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.
— Desiderius Erasmus people
Prevention is better than cure.
— 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.
— Desiderius Erasmus mind
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 people
No one respects a talent that is concealed.
— Desiderius Erasmus respect
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 art
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
— Desiderius Erasmus crime
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
— Desiderius Erasmus books
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
— Desiderius Erasmus age
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
— Desiderius Erasmus wealth
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 joy
Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
— Desiderius Erasmus men
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
— Desiderius Erasmus man
Fortune favors the audacious.
— Desiderius Erasmus
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
— Desiderius Erasmus happiness
To know nothing is the happiest life.
— Desiderius Erasmus life
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
— Desiderius Erasmus men
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
— Desiderius Erasmus god
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
— Desiderius Erasmus power
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
— Desiderius Erasmus man
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 hope
The desire to write grows with writing.
— Desiderius Erasmus writing
Dont give your advice before you are called upon.
— Desiderius Erasmus advice

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