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Desiderius Erasmus

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In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.


— Desiderius Erasmus


#country #eyed #king #man

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.


— Desiderius Erasmus


#god #man #wolf

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.


— Desiderius Erasmus


#another #judgments #nothing #pedantic

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.


— Desiderius Erasmus


#deception #folly #hear #human #i

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.


— Desiderius Erasmus


#does #due #intellect #pay #reverence

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.


— Desiderius Erasmus


#fragrance #giving #mind #out #rank

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.


— Desiderius Erasmus


#doctor #even #higher #his #ignorant

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.


— Desiderius Erasmus


#good #how #knowing #lie #portion

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.


— Desiderius Erasmus


#bookshelves #burning #him #luther #may

Don't give your advice before you are called upon.


— Desiderius Erasmus


#before #called #give #upon #you






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Did you know about Desiderius Erasmus?

He was a proponent of religious toleration and enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists"; he has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists". Using humanist techniques for working on texts he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament. The exact year of his birth is debated with most biographers citing the year as 1467.

He also wrote The Praise of Folly Handbook of a Christian Knight On Civility in Children Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style Julius Exclusus and many other works. Desiderius was a self-adopted additional name which he used from 1496. In relation to clerical abuses in the Church Erasmus remained committed to reforming the Church from within.

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