Erasmus Quotes

Eski bir deyiş vardır: Hafızası güçlü bir içki yoldaşından nefret ederim. Buna ben yeni bir deyiş ekliyorum: Hafızası güçlü bir dinleyiciden nefret ederim. Öyleyse, haydi bana eyvallah, alkışlayın, yaşayın, için, ey deliliğin seçkin erenleri.

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Nicht die haben Bücher recht lieb, welche sie unberührt in den Schränken aufheben, sondern die, die sie Tag und Nacht in den Händen halten.

For anyone who loves intensely lives not in himself but in the object of his love, and the further he can move out of himself into his love, the happier he is.

La gente cree que equivocarse es una desgracia; pero es mucho mayor no equivocarse.

nada le importe morir a quien jamás vivió.

The working of miracles is old and out-dated; to teach the people is too laborious; to interpret scripture is to invade the prerogative of the schoolmen; to pray is too idle; to shed tears is cowardly and unmanly; to fast is too mean and sordid; to be easy and familiar is beneath the grandeur of him, who, without being sued to and intreated, will scarce give princes the honour of kissing his toe; finally, to die for religion is too self-denying; and to be crucified as their Lord of Life, is base and ignominious.

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

no hay goce alguno de las cosas si no se comparten con otros.

Whoever among you thinks himself wise must become a fool to be truly wise

for where wars are fought with words, not even seven men are a match for one woman.

Ma questa, dicono, è appunto follia. Non voglio negarlo, purché in compenso si riconosca che questo è il modo di recitare la commedia della vita.

But this equality applied to such a diversity of persons and temperaments will only result in inequality.

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

Der Weise nimmt seine Zuflucht zu den Schriften der Alten und lernt daraus nichts als Wortklauberei. Der Tor hingegen rückt den Problemen zu Leibe und geht das Wagnis, sich mit ihnen auseinanderzusetzen, ein und gewinnt dadurch – wenn ich mich nicht täusche – die wahre Klugheit.