Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

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

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

Prevention is better than cure.

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

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

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

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

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

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

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

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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Desiderius Erasmus

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

Your library is your paradise.

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

Fortune favors the audacious.

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

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

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

To know nothing is the happiest life.

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Desiderius Erasmus

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

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

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

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

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

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

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

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

The desire to write grows with writing.