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He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Desiderius Erasmus

Crime

Oppression

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Humility is truth.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

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.

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus

Blind

Man

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Desiderius Erasmus

Happiness

Man

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

Desiderius Erasmus

Privilege

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Desiderius Erasmus

Mankind

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

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

Desiderius Erasmus

Intellect

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.