A biography for Desiderius Erasmushasn’t been written yet.
“Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.”
“Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.”
“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
“By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.”
“In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.”
“Fortune favors the audacious.”
“The desire to write grows with writing.”
“War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.”
“Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.”
“Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.”