Desiderius Erasmus Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Desiderius Erasmus quotes and sayings page 2 (philosopher). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 50 we have.
“Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.”
“What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?”
“Fools are without number.”
“To know nothing is the happiest life.”
“It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.”
“Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?”
“Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.”
“By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.”
“Time takes away the grief of men.”
“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
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