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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.”
Desiderius Erasmus quotes (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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“Don't give your advice before you are called upon.”
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“He who allows oppression shares the crime.”
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“By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him”
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“Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin”
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“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”
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“War is sweet to those who have not experienced it”
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“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one”
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“Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”
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