Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
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Quotes by Desiderius Erasmus
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Your library is your paradise.
Prevention is better than cure.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
No one respects a talent that is concealed.
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
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.
Fortune favors the audacious.
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
Humility is truth.
Time takes away the grief of men.
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