"The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is."
― Desiderius Erasmus
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"For anyone who loves intensely lives not in himself but in the object of his love, and the further he can move out of himself into his love, the happier he is.”
― Desiderius Erasmus
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"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."
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"Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin."
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"In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king."
― Desiderius Erasmus
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"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
― Desiderius Erasmus
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"Prevention is better than cure."
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"Fortune favors the audacious."
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"He who allows oppression shares the crime."
― Desiderius Erasmus
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"Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin."
― Desiderius Erasmus
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"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."
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"The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are."
― Desiderius Erasmus
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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
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"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself."
― Desiderius Erasmus
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"Don't give your advice before you are called upon."
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"Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them."
― Desiderius Erasmus
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"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."
― Desiderius Erasmus
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"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
― Desiderius Erasmus
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"At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them."
― Desiderius Erasmus
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"The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth."
― Desiderius Erasmus
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"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."
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