Erasmus Quotes

Wanneer ik een beetje geld heb, koop ik me daarvan boeken. Wanneer er dan nog wat over is, koop ik eten en kledij.

How do you like our England, you will say? Believe me when I assure you that I have never liked anything as much before.

. “Ik vervloek die mooie jongens, die het mij ontmogelijk maken van dat deel van Italië te genieten dat me dagelijks meer toelacht!” .

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.

I do not like a child that is a man too soon.

"Folly is the only thing that keeps youth at a stay and old age afar off;" as it is verified in the Brabanders, of whom there goes this common saying, "That age, which is wont to render other men wiser, makes them the greater fools."

Llevad a un sabio a un banquete y lo perturbará o con lúgubre silencio o con preguntas fastidiosas. Introducidle en un baile y os parecerá, danzando, un camello.

There are infinite of these subtle trifles, and others more subtle than these, of notions, relations, instants, formalities, quiddities, haecceities, which no one can perceive without a Lynceus whose eyes could look through a stone wall and discover those things through the thickest darkness that never were.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

And so when the whole man will be outside himself, and happy for no reason except that he is so outside himself, he will enjoy some of the ineffable share in the supreme good which draws everything into itself.

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

What a mockery it is to regard as slaves those whom Christ redeemed with the same blood as redeemed you

What makes a prince a great man, except the consent of his subjects?

Bir hükümdar öyle bir konumdadır ki, doğruluktan azıcık bel verse bu büyük bir veba gibi yayılarak bütün halkı sarar.

What is more fawning than a dog? And yet what is more faithful? What is more fond and caressing than a squirrel? But where will you find a better friend to man?