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Desiderius Erasmus

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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.


— Desiderius Erasmus


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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.


— Desiderius Erasmus


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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.


— Desiderius Erasmus


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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.


— Desiderius Erasmus


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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.


— Desiderius Erasmus


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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.


— Desiderius Erasmus


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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.


— Desiderius Erasmus


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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.


— Desiderius Erasmus


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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.


— Desiderius Erasmus


#disadvantageous #just #most #peace #than

Time takes away the grief of men.


— Desiderius Erasmus


#away #grief #takes #time






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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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