Top 15 Erasmus Quotes

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

Your library is your paradise.

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

The desire to write grows with writing.

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

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

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

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

I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

‎If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

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.