Quotes By Desiderius Erasmus

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Time takes away the grief of men.

Prevention is better than cure.

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.

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.

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.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Fools are without number.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Fortune favors the audacious.