Quotes by Desiderius Erasmus

"Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin."

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

"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human."

"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."

"Fortune favors the audacious."

"I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people."

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

"No one respects a talent that is concealed."

"Man is to man either a god or a wolf."

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

"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."

"He who allows oppression shares the crime."

"Prevention is better than cure."

"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself."

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

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

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

"Humility is truth."

"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."

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