33 Quotes by Erasmus

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

dulce es la guerra para los que no la han experimentado.

Is there anywhere on earth exempt from these swarms of new books? Even if, taken out one at a time, they offered something worth knowing, the very mass of them would be an impediment to learning from satiety if nothing else

It is the most deplorable tribute when the succession of an inferior ruler turns his predecessor, who was intolerable while he lived, into someone whose integrity and goodness are sadly missed.

It is the mark of a tyrant, indeed an underhand deception, to treat people at large the way that animal trainers customarily treat a wild beast; for their prime concern is to observe what pacifies it or what arouses it, and they provoke or soothe it to suit their own convenience.

What a mockery it is to regard as slaves those whom Christ redeemed with the same blood as redeemed you

Dulce bellum inexpertis.

A life without books is unlivable.

Ego mundi civis esse cupio, communis omnium, vel peregrinus magis.