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«You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.»
«War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.»
«Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason /you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.»
«By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.»
«Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.»
«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?»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
cave, emerged, marvel, Plato, The Philosopher, The Shadows, various
«People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied. And their futile reward, a word of praise from a handful of people, they win at such a cost -- so many late nights, such loss of sleep, sweetest of all things, and so much sweat and anguish... their health deteriorates, their looks are destroyed, they suffer partial or total blindness, poverty, ill-will, denial of pleasure, premature old age and early death.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
anguish, blindness, continuous, denial, denial of, deteriorates, erudition, favored, futile, handful, ill health, ill will, lay aside, nights, partial, pitied, premature, rephrase, self-torture, sleep late, sweetest, take up, torture
«Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
gloss, glosses, in the same breath, piling, relevant, self-satisfied, Sisyphus, six hundred, string
«Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| About:
Reflection
| Keywords:
fragrance, rank, revelry, wholesome
«Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
applause, approval, bronze, bronzed, casting vote, effigy, presents, self-satisfied, stand for, stand in, stare, The Crowd, the market
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