Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]


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.]
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He touches nothing but he adds a charm.
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Between the victim and the stone knife. [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]
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Submit or resign. [Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.]
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Classes and masses.
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From hence, no question, has sprung an observation . . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that...
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a...
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Fools are without number.
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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Your library is your paradise.
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I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insan...
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Time takes away the grief of men.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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No one respects a talent that is concealed.
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Concealed talent brings no reputation.
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their bell...
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Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
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Fortune favors the audacious.
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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, ...
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It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
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The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
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The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
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He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal
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Do not get excited over the noise you have made
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
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Humility is truth.
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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To know nothing is the happiest life
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Beware lest clamor be taken for counsel.
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, il...
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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(Only by) the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal...
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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance.
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Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin
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They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclai...
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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than rea...
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A man must hug, and dandle, and kistle, and play a hundred little tricks with his bed-fellow when he...
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Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin
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Man is to man either a god or a wolf
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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it
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A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
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A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest member...
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By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of h...
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In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king
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The desire to write grows with writing.
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A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest member...
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It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptu...
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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
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To know nothing is the happiest life.
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Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
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The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
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In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
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When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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cuanto más perfecto es el amor, mayor es la locura, y mayor la felicidad.
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The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.
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Your library is your paradise.
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Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.
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The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
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A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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dulce es la guerra para los que no la han experimentado.
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When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.
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Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts...
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. ...
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And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.
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Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on...
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Stroke follow strokes, the sparkling ingot shines,/ Flows the red slag, the lengthening bar refines;...
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No, Sir, because I have time to think before I speak, and don't ask impertinent questions.
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A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
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Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
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Many of us will die for science without knowing it.
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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!
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Bad people are less a problem than indifferent people.
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Pharma industry is the art of making billions from milligrams.
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Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation.
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The relation nurse/doctor is even more complex than the relation patient/doctor.
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Is my dentist not bound by the Geneva Convention?
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Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.
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The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.
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A good health policy is based on three principles. Unfortunately, nobody knows them.
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Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
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Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
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Soft data, hard conflicts.
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In a hospital, half of the patients get better food than at home.
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The most frequent lie in a hospital: it won't hurt.
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The call for free markets would be more successful if it came from more sympathetic people.
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