If we were willing to evaluate things not according to the opinion of the crowd, but according to nature itself, how is it less repulsive to eat, chew, digest, evacuate, and sleep after the fashion of dumb animals, than to enjoy lawful and permitted carnal relations?
Desiderius Erasmus
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Desiderius Erasmus
There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
Desiderius Erasmus
To know nothing is the happiest life.
Desiderius Erasmus
A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant.
Desiderius Erasmus
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Desiderius Erasmus
I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
Desiderius Erasmus
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus
Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
Desiderius Erasmus
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Desiderius Erasmus
I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.
Desiderius Erasmus
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Desiderius Erasmus
For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?
Desiderius Erasmus
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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