Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

Humility is truth.

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

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

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

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

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

Time takes away the grief of men.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one t...

To know nothing is the happiest life.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of h...

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

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

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it...

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

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

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.