(67 quotes found)
“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”
Desiderius Erasmus
“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
“To know nothing is the happiest life”
“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.”
“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”
“He who allows oppression shares the crime.”
“Concealed talent brings no reputation.”
“Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.”
“Fortune favors the audacious”
“This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.”
