Desiderius Erasmus

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it…

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing…

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men’s judgments of one another…

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I…

Humility is truth…

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn’t have it, to fear…

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the…

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it…

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

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will…

Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to…

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood…

The desire to write grows with writing…

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

Women, can’t live with them, can’t live without them…