Dutch - Philosopher | October 28, 1466 - July 12, 1536
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
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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?
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Fortune favors the audacious.
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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
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In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.
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