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.
ErasmusTags: education learning christianity religion theology
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
ErasmusEverybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
ErasmusWar is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
ErasmusWhen I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
ErasmusTags: books
The desire to write grows with writing.
ErasmusTags: writing
At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.
ErasmusI consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.
ErasmusNicht die haben Bücher recht lieb, welche sie unberührt in den Schränken aufheben, sondern die, die sie Tag und Nacht in den Händen halten.
ErasmusTags: books-bücher
The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.
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