Quotes
Quotes - Erasmus
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.
Between the victim and the stone knife. [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]
Submit or resign. [Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.]
Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.]
Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]
The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears. [Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit.]
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.]
A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.
It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt. [Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]
If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.]
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.
From hence, no question, has sprung an observation . . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirit.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions. [Lat., Bona prudentiae pars est nosse stultas vulgi cupiditates, et absurdas opiniones.]
