Desiderius Erasmus Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.”

“Don't give your advice before you are called upon.”

“Man is to man either a god or a wolf.”

“Fortune favors the audacious.”

“No one respects a talent that is concealed.”

“Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.”

“The desire to write grows with writing.”

“Humility is truth.”

“Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.”

“Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.”