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Desiderius Erasmus

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Your library is your paradise.


— Desiderius Erasmus


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


— Desiderius Erasmus


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


— Desiderius Erasmus


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No one respects a talent that is concealed.


— Desiderius Erasmus


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


— Desiderius Erasmus


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To know nothing is the happiest life.


— Desiderius Erasmus


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


— Desiderius Erasmus


#live #them #without

Concealed talent brings no reputation.


— Desiderius Erasmus


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He who allows oppression shares the crime.


— Desiderius Erasmus


#crime #oppression #shares #who

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.


— Desiderius Erasmus


#dream world #face #face reality #into #live






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Did you know about Desiderius Erasmus?

He was a proponent of religious toleration and enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists"; he has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists". Using humanist techniques for working on texts he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament. The exact year of his birth is debated with most biographers citing the year as 1467.

He also wrote The Praise of Folly Handbook of a Christian Knight On Civility in Children Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style Julius Exclusus and many other works. Desiderius was a self-adopted additional name which he used from 1496. In relation to clerical abuses in the Church Erasmus remained committed to reforming the Church from within.

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