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From hence, no question, has sprung an observation . . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirit.


Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus

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We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.]
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. [Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis....
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt. [Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere...
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS He touches nothing but he adds a charm.
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [La...
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS Between the victim and the stone knife. [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS Submit or resign. [Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.]
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow ou...
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, co...
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears. [Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua eti...
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS Classes and masses.
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable...
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS (Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in...
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! ...
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS Prevention is better than cure.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Only by the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal c...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A P...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than rea...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates ...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invit...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and par...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they ...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS If a person were to try stripping the disguises from actors while they play a scene upon stage, show...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, il...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack pri...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Fools are without number.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortun...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one t...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Your library is your paradise.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insan...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the sha...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. D...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongs...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Time takes away the grief of men.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is t...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they ...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard wor...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures,...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS No one respects a talent that is concealed.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Concealed talent brings no reputation.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their bell...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Fortune favors the audacious.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the tim...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, ...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of natur...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands,...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941 Paul does not forbid yo...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Trinity Sunday I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the Holy ...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack p...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Do not get excited over the noise you have made
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never ...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Humility is truth.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS He who allows oppression shares the crime.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Fortune favors the audacious
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS To know nothing is the happiest life
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote,...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Beware lest clamor be taken for counsel.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, il...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS (Only by) the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclai...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than rea...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS A man must hug, and dandle, and kistle, and play a hundred little tricks with his bed-fellow when he...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Man is to man either a god or a wolf
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS War is sweet to those who have not experienced it
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest member...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of h...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS The desire to write grows with writing.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest member...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of natur...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptu...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's mi...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS To know nothing is the happiest life.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, an...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
DESIDERIUS In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
ERASMUS When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
ERASMUS In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
ERASMUS cuanto más perfecto es el amor, mayor es la locura, y mayor la felicidad.
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ERASMUS The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.
ERASMUS Your library is your paradise.
ERASMUS Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.
ERASMUS The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
ERASMUS A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.
ERASMUS He who allows oppression shares the crime.
ERASMUS The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
ERASMUS dulce es la guerra para los que no la han experimentado.
ERASMUS When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.
ERASMUS Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts...
ERASMUS DARWIN He who allows oppression shares the crime.
ERASMUS DARWIN No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. ...
ERASMUS DARWIN And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.
ERASMUS DARWIN Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on...
ERASMUS DARWIN Stroke follow strokes, the sparkling ingot shines,/ Flows the red slag, the lengthening bar refines;...
ERASMUS DARWIN I want to give the teams a normal cricket wicket, one the guys can bat on, but which also rewards bo...
CHRISTO ERASMUS I can't take the risk of leaving too much moisture in the pitch. At this time of the year, one does ...
CHRISTO ERASMUS I decided to produce my own pitch, which was similar to the one on which we played Australia four ye...
CHRISTO ERASMUS No, Sir, because I have time to think before I speak, and don't ask impertinent questions.
ERASMUS DARWIN With zealous step he climbs the upland lawn, And bows in homage to the rising dawn; Imbibes with eag...
ERASMUS DARWIN A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
ERASMUS DARWIN The late Mr. D...
ERASMUS DARWIN Organic life beneath the shoreless wavesWas born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;First forms minu...
ERASMUS DARWIN Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam! afar / Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; / Or on w...
ERASMUS DARWIN It's been scientifically proven that at the end of a game more oxygen is being used to keep tired bo...
RASSIE ERASMUS In college, sometimes, a record like this gets you into a bowl game. But it's not that way at all (i...
ERASMUS JAMES For me to come back out there and get to him again would be great.
ERASMUS JAMES I have to improve on a lot of things. I'm looking forward to next year. I want to work on a few thin...
ERASMUS JAMES I'm definitely in football shape. I was working out twice a day ... so I'm definitely in football sh...
ERASMUS JAMES They said it was mono-like symptoms but it wasn't mono. I'm feeling much better this week.
ERASMUS JAMES I need to get stronger. That's my No. 1 goal. That'll be big-time.
ERASMUS JAMES I'm really excited. You see him on TV all the time and see what he can do.
ERASMUS JAMES I'm very excited. I'll see where I'm at in terms [of playing] with a lot of the veteran guys, guys t...
ERASMUS JAMES Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;
First ...
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GERHARD KOCHER Life is a loss of time.
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GERHARD SCHRODER Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?
GERHARD KOCHER Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
GERHARD KOCHER Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents.
GERHARD KOCHER Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.
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GERHARD KOCHER You can't treat a car like a patient. A car needs love.
GERHARD KOCHER Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.
GERHARD KOCHER Many of us will die for science without knowing it.
GERHARD KOCHER How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!
GERHARD KOCHER Bad people are less a problem than indifferent people.
GERHARD KOCHER Pharma industry is the art of making billions from milligrams.
GERHARD KOCHER Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation.
GERHARD KOCHER The relation nurse/doctor is even more complex than the relation patient/doctor.
GERHARD KOCHER Is my dentist not bound by the Geneva Convention?
GERHARD KOCHER Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.
GERHARD KOCHER The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.
GERHARD KOCHER A good health policy is based on three principles. Unfortunately, nobody knows them.
GERHARD KOCHER Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
GERHARD KOCHER Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
GERHARD KOCHER Soft data, hard conflicts.
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GERHARD KOCHER In a hospital, half of the patients get better food than at home.
GERHARD KOCHER After each stay in a hospital I live extremely healthy (sometimes up to five days!).
GERHARD KOCHER The most frequent lie in a hospital: it won't hurt.
GERHARD KOCHER The call for free markets would be more successful if it came from more sympathetic people.
GERHARD KOCHER Boxing is dangerous, but at least it hits the right people.
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