Creative Quotations from Desiderius Erasmus (1469?-1536)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Desiderius Erasmus
(1469?-1536) born on Oct 27

Dutch "scholar, philosopher, author". "He was a renaissance humanist who advanced reform in Catholic Church; best known for satire "The Praise of Folly," 1509."

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes."

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

War is delightful to those who have no experience with it.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"CWE, vol 1, ep. 124, p. 252.72-73."
R:	"Works of Hilary, Preface, 5 Jan. 1523."
A:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
N:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
K:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."