Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Desiderius Erasmus

Give, Light, Darkness

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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King, Blind, Kingdom

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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Education, Money, Food

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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Live, Reality, Dream

No one respects a talent that is concealed.
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Talent, Respects, Concealed

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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Another, Overcome, Habit

To know nothing is the happiest life.
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Life, Nothing, Happiest

Concealed talent brings no reputation.
Desiderius Erasmus

Talent, Reputation, Brings

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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Nature, Nothing, Cannot

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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Hope, Thinking, Happen

Prevention is better than cure.
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Cure, Prevention

The desire to write grows with writing.
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Communication, Writing, Write

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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Nature, Men, Mother

He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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Crime, Oppression, Shares

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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Happiness, Point, Willing

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
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Great, Cannot, Abundance

Your library is your paradise.
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Education, Library, Paradise

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

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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Live, Ignorance, Human

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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Wife, Single, Doubt

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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Men, Nothing, Another

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.
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Success, Fun, Woman

Fortune favors the audacious.
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Fortune, Favors, Audacious

Humility is truth.
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Truth, Humility

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Philosopher

Born: October 26, 1466

Died: July 12, 1536

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