Famous Quotes / Desiderius Erasmus
54 Quotations by Desiderius Erasmus
- 1. A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
- 2. As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates ...
- 3. Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invit ...
- 4. By a Carpenter mankind was made; and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
- 5. Concealed talent brings no reputation.
- 6. Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
- 7. Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is t ...
- 8. Fools are without number.
- 9. For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard wor ...
- 10. Fortune favors the audacious.
- 11. Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
- 12. Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
- 13. Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
- 14. He does good to himself who does good to his friend.
- 15. Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer to a ...
- 16. I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insan ...
- 17. If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has ...
- 18. In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ...
- 19. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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- 20. It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.