Desiderius Erasmus
20 quotations
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Fools are without number.
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Time takes away the grief of men.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
Your library is your paradise.
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Prevention is better than cure.
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
No one respects a talent that is concealed.
Concealed talent brings no reputation.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.