Let the public good overcome all private and selfish regard… - Erasmus

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Let the public good overcome all private and selfish regards of every kind and degree; though in truth, even private and selfish regards, and every man's own interest, will be best promoted by the preservation of peace.

Erasmus

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Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (27 October 1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch philosopher, humanist and theologian.

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Native Name: Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

Alternative Names: Erasmus of Rotterdam • Desiderius Erasmus • Erasmus Von Rotterdam Erasmus • Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam • Erasmus von Rotterdam • Erasmus Rotterdam

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In regione caecorum rex est luscus.

Like the body the soul can be healthy, youthful, and so on. It can undergo pain, thirst, and hunger. In this physical life, that is, in the visible world, we avoid whatever would defile or deform the body; how much more, then, ought we to avoid that which would tarnish the soul?

I feel that the entire spiritual life consists in this: That we gradually turn from those things whose appearance is deceptive to those things that are real. p. 63

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