Jupiter, not wanting man’s life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason – you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

— Desiderius Erasmus

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The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.

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Ask a wise man to dinner and he’ll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you’ll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people’s entertainment.

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Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly – because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will.

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You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

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You’ll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.

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God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

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Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.

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Retain the wind by compressing the belly.

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Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

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What passes out of one’s mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

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By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

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It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

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He who doesn’t sin, is the greatest sinner of all.

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Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

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They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

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Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

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The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.

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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.

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A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.

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He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.

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