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Desiderius Erasmus (1466 – 1536)


Dutch philosopher, humanist and theologian.
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Desiderius Erasmus
I 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.
Erasmus quotes
Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.
Erasmus
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.




Erasmus Desiderius quotes
In regione caecorum rex est luscus.
Erasmus Desiderius
Ad Graecas literas totum animum applicui; statimque, ut pecuniam acceptero, Graecos primum autores, deinde vestes emam.
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