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1466–1536 Netherlands
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (27 October 1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch philosopher, humanist and theologian.
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Also known as: Desiderius Erasmus, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Erasmus, Desiderius
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There is always a suspicion of something wrong, and on the least complaint such a person is sent back.
A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit.
The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears.
It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt.
The wedlock of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
Not fewer than three nor more than nine.
No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope).
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
How much more passion than reason has Jupiter composed us? putting in, as one would say, “scarce half an ounce to a pound.
No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.
Between the victim and the stone knife.
He that gives quickly gives twice.
Adagia (1508)
To the pure all things are pure.
There are others where religion is nothing but ritual; and these are worse than the first, for the Spirit of God is not in them, and they are inflated with self-righteousness.
But there is craft, and plenty of it — craft enough to impose on mature men, not to say innocent boys; and this is called profession.
This world, the whole of the planet called earth, is the common country of all who live and breathe upon it.
The Complaint of Peace (1521)
Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.
If there is truth in the popular legend, that Antichrist will be born from a monk and a nun (which is the story these people keep putting about), how many thousands of Antichrists the world must have already!
Of how much more passion than reason has Jupiter composed us? putting in, as one would say, "scarce half an ounce to a pound."
The Praise of Folly (1511)
Books destroy women's brains, who have little enough of themselves. ... I have often heard it said that a wise woman is twice a fool.