(67 quotes found)
“War is sweet to those who have not experienced it”
Desiderius Erasmus
“Man is to man either a god or a wolf”
“Do not get excited over the noise you have made”
“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.”
“Humility is truth.”
“Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin”
“Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.”
“No one respects a talent that is concealed.”
“Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed”
“A man must hug, and dandle, and kistle, and play a hundred little tricks with his bed-fellow when he is disposed to make that use of her that nature designed her for”
