Desiderius Erasmus Quotes & Sayings

“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”

“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.”

“Your library is your paradise.”

“Prevention is better than cure.”

“He who allows oppression shares the crime.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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