“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.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

Woman Fun Party

“Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

Nothing Judgments Another

“By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

You Minds Rid

“Your library is your paradise.”

— Erasmus

library

“Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and...”

— Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia; Or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening. with the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough. by Erasmus Darwin, M.D. F.R.S. Author of Zoonomia, and of the Botanic Garden.

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“The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.”

— Erasmus

bliss folly

“Fortune favors the audacious.”

— Erasmus

audacity

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

— Erasmus

blindness

“Betwixt the devil and the deap sea.”