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Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

«They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic»
«Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires.»
«Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.»
«Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin»
«Don't give your advice before you are called upon.»
«The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.»
«He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal»
«Fools are without number.»
«It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.»
«Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.»

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