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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus föddes den October 27th 1469 och dog den 12 July 1536 - of the New Testament.
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 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. |
| If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict. |
| In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king |
| It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. |
| It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. |
| It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. |
| It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide. |
| Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason /you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions. |
| Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly. |
| Man is to man either a god or a wolf |
| Man is to man either a god or a wolf |
| Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. |
| Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s. |
| No one respects a talent that is concealed. |
| Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. |
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