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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin
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Desiderius Erasmus quotes
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Dutch
Priest
,
Humanist
and
Editor
of the New Testament,
1469
-
1536
)
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Priest
,
Humanist
and
Editor
of the New Testament,
1469
-
1536
)
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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Dutch
Priest
,
Humanist
and
Editor
of the New Testament,
1469
-
1536
)
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
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Dutch
Priest
,
Humanist
and
Editor
of the New Testament,
1469
-
1536
)
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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
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Dutch
Priest
,
Humanist
and
Editor
of the New Testament,
1469
-
1536
)
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In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king
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Dutch
Priest
,
Humanist
and
Editor
of the New Testament,
1469
-
1536
)
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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?
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Dutch
Priest
,
Humanist
and
Editor
of the New Testament,
1469
-
1536
)
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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.
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Dutch
Priest
,
Humanist
and
Editor
of the New Testament,
1469
-
1536
)
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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.
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Priest
,
Humanist
and
Editor
of the New Testament,
1469
-
1536
)
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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Dutch
Priest
,
Humanist
and
Editor
of the New Testament,
1469
-
1536
)
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
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,
Humanist
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1469
-
1536
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