QUOTES by Desiderius Erasmus
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"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."
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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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"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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"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."
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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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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
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"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."
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"Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin."
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"It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide."
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"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes."
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