Desiderius Erasmus
Dutch humanist and philosopher
Lived from: 1469 - 1536
Category: Philosophers Country: 
Netherlands
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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Concealed talent brings no reputation.
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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]
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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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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.
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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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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Fools are without number.
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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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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If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.
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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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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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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason - you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
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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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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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No one respects a talent that is concealed.
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