Quotes by Erasmus

“We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us.”

“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.”

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

“War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.”

“Bidden or unbidden, God is present.”

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”

“The desire to write grows with writing.”

“Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and I shall boldly add all can be theologians.”

“In his last years Linacre gave up medicine for the Church and then for the first time read the gospels. On so doing he exclaimed, 'Either this is not the gospel or we are not Christians.”

“Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war.”

“Moreover God hath ordained man in this world, as it were, the very image of himself, to the intent, that he, as it were a god on earth, should provide for the wealth of all creatures.”

“The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth”

“Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.”

“Birth after birth the line unchanging runs,And fathers live transmitted in their sons;Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds,The same their manners, and the same their minds:Till, as erelong...”

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”

“Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.”

“The mass starts into a million suns;Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst,And second planets issue from the first.[The first concept of a 'big bang' theory of the universe.]”

“This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, as far as our necessities will admit; for we cannot exist long without the destruction of other an...”

“Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.”

“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.”