Top 13 Desiderius Erasmus Quotes



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.

 

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

 

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

 

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

 

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

 

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

 

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

 

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn’t have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

 

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

 

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

 

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