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Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (51)

Birth:	28th October, 1466
Death:	12th July, 1536
Nationality:	Dutch
Profession:	Critic, Teacher, Theologian

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Desiderius Erasmus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian. Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style. He was an early proponent of religious toleration, and enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists"; he has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists".

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• The desire to write grows with writing.

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

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• Time takes away the grief of men.

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

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• Women, can’t live with them, can’t live without them.

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• Your library is your paradise.

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• Women, can’t live with them, can’t live without them.

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• 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.

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• What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

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• What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato’s cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don’t know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

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• War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

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

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• To know nothing is the happiest life.

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• 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.

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

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• The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

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• 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.

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

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• Prevention is better than cure.

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