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Desiderius Erasmus

Born: October 28, 1466

Died: July 12, 1536

Nationality: Dutch

Occupation: Philosopher

Biography: Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.

Desiderius Erasmus

“(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave.”

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“So likewise all this life of martall men, What is it but a certaine kynde of stage plaie? Where men come forthe disguised one in one arraie, An other in an other eche plaiying his part.”

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“As Plato entertained some friends in a room where there was a couch richly ornamented, Diogenes came in very dirty, as usual, and getting upon the couch, and trampling on it, said, I trample upon the pride of Plato. Plato mildly answered, But with greater pride, Diogenes!”

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“If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you.”

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“This I always religiously observed, as a rule, never to chide my husband before company nor to prattle abroad of miscarriages at home. What passes between two people is much easier made up than when once it has taken air.”

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“It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt.”

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“Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived, and apt to have ague fits.”

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“His eloquent tongue so well seconds his fertile invention that no one speaks better when suddenly called forth. His attention never languishes; his mind is always before his words; his memory has all its stock so turned into ready money that, without hesitation or delay, it supplies whatever the occasion may require.”

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“Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.)”

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“Oh, the incomparable contrivance of Nature, who has ordered all things in so even a method that wherever she has been less bountiful in her gifts, there she makes it up with a larger dose of self-love, which supplies the former deficits and makes all even.”

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“Experience is the common schoolhouse of fools and ill men. Men of wit and honesty be otherwise instructed.”

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“The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears.”

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“The wedlock of minds will be greater than that of bodies.”

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“If a man get a fever, or a pain in the head with overdrinking, we are subject to curse the wine, when we should rather impute it to ourselves for the excess.”

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