Erasmus Quotes

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

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

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
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“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

De que serve a juventude se esta for corrompida por um aborrecimento senil.

But, to return to my design, what power was it that drew those stony, oaken, and wild people into cities but flattery? For nothing else is signified by Amphion and Orpheus' harp. What was it that, when the common people of Rome were like to have destroyed all by their mutiny, reduced them to obedience? Was it a philosophical oration? Least. But a ridiculous and childish fable of the belly and the rest of the members. And as good success had Themistocles in his of the fox and hedgehog. What wise man's oration could ever have done so much with the people as Sertorius' invention of his white hind? Or his ridiculous emblem of pulling off a horse's tail hair by hair? Or as Lycurgus his example of his two whelps? To say nothing of Minos and Numa, both which ruled their foolish multitudes with fabulous inventions; with which kind of toys that great and powerful beast, the people, are led anyway.

Το πρώτο πράγμα που θα κάνω, όταν έχω χρήματα, είναι να αγοράσω ελληνικά βιβλία και κατόπιν θα αγοράσω ρούχα.

Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

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

We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us.

İnsanların çoğu aslında delidir, hayır şöyle demeliyiz, çeşitli şekillerde delirmeyen kimse yoktur, bu yüzden zorunluluk benzerini benzeriyle buluşturur.

But who are they that for no other reason but that they were weary of life have hastened their own fate? Were they not the next neighbors to wisdom? among whom, to say nothing of Diogenes, Xenocrates, Cato, Cassius, Brutus, that wise man Chiron, being offered immortality, chose rather to die than be troubled with the same thing always.

so sweet a thing it is not to be wise, that on the contrary men rather pray against anything than folly.

I know this is overused...but it is accurate!

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

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

In regione caecorum rex est luscus / In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king