Desiderius Erasmus Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”

“In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.”

“It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.”

“Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.”

“Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.”

“The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.”

“Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.”

“It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.”

“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”

“Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.”