Erasmus Quotes

No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.)

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

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

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

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.

He does good to himself who does good to his friend.

Your library is your paradise.

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

He who shuns the millstone shuns the meal.

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

Betwixt the devil and the deap sea.

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

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Prevention is better than cure.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

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

Of two evils choose the least.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree.

Fortune favors the audacious.

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

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Bidden or unbidden, God is present.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Moreover God hath ordained man in this world, as it were, the very image of himself, to the intent, that he, as it were a god on earth, should provide for the wealth of all creatures.

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