Quotes By Desiderius Erasmus

The desire to write grows with writing.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

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

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

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.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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

Humility is truth.

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

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Prevention is better than cure.

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

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

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

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.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

To know nothing is the happiest life.