Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly — because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and … - Erasmus

For what that passes among mortals everywhere is not full of folly, done be fools in the presence of fools?

Next, let no one be so fond as to imagine, that I should so far stint my invention to the method of other pleaders, as first to define, and then divide my subject, i.e., myself. For it is equally hazardous to attempt the crowding her within the narrow limits of a definition, whose nature is of so diffusive an extent, or to mangle and disjoin that, to the adoration whereof all nations unitedly concur.

Başınıza taş düşerse, bu sahiden kötüdür; ama utanç, şerefsizlik, ayıp ya da hakaret ancak sen aldırırsan kötü olur. His yoksa kötülük de yoktur. Halk var gücüyle seni ıslıklarken, sen kendini alkışlarsan bunun ne zararı olabilir? İşte kendini alkışlamanı mümkün kılan tek şey Deliliktir