It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. Desiderius Erasmus More Quotes by Desiderius Erasmus More Quotes From Desiderius Erasmus Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment. Desiderius Erasmus intelligentwisemen Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. Desiderius Erasmus libraryguiltybook Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine. Desiderius Erasmus sandpearlsgold War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. Desiderius Erasmus militarywarpeace Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity. Desiderius Erasmus encounterschristianitylooks It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. Desiderius Erasmus intellectdoepay Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them. Desiderius Erasmus plantshapesbody Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. Desiderius Erasmus prodigiesshouldershate There is no joy in possession without sharing. Desiderius Erasmus caringchangejoy The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly Desiderius Erasmus blissdegreesform 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. Desiderius Erasmus natureignorancebelieve Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman Desiderius Erasmus prayermayheaven When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. Desiderius Erasmus moneymotivationalinspirational So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive. Desiderius Erasmus gardenlightliterature Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more. Desiderius Erasmus ignorancechristianpeople 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. Desiderius Erasmus differencesmenpeople They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic. Desiderius Erasmus sixarmymay By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance. Desiderius Erasmus heresyorthodoxyignorance You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law. Desiderius Erasmus qualms-aboutlawlying Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter. Desiderius Erasmus argumentlaughter
