List of Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

Dulce Bellum Inexpertis. - War Is Lovely For Those Who Know Nothing About It.

Christians Would Show Sense If They Dispatched These Argumentative Scotists And Pigheaded Ockhamists And Undefeated Albertists Along With The Whole Regiment Of Sophists To Fight The Turks And Saracens Instead Of Sending Those Armies Of Dull-witted Soldiers With Whom They've Long Been Carrying On War With No Result.

...it Is A Sneaking Piece Of Cowardice For Authors To Put Feigned Names To Their Works, As If, Like Bastards Of Their Brain, They Were Afraid To Own Them.

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.

War Is Delightful For Those Who Don't Know It

Scarcely Is There Any Peace So Unjust That It Is Better Than Even The Fairest War. -vix Ulla Tam Iniqua Pax, Quin Bello Vel Aequissimo Sit Potior

They Take Unbelievable Pleasure In The Hideous Blast Of The Hunting Horn And Baying Of The Hounds. Dogs Dung Smells Sweet As Cinnamon To Them.

War Is Sweet To Those Who Have Not Experienced It.

It Is Wisdom In Prosperity, When All Is As Thou Wouldn't Have It, To Fear And Suspect The Worst.

It Is Folly Alone That Stays The Fugue Of Youth And Beats Off Touring Old Age.

I Consider As Lovers Of Books Not Those Who Keep Their Books Hidden In Their Store-chests And Never Handle Them, But Those Who, By Nightly As Well As Daily Use Thumb Them, Batter Them, Wear Them Out, Who Fill Out All The Margins With Annotations Of Many Kinds, And Who Prefer The Marks Of A Fault They Have Erased To A Neat Copy Full Of Faults.

[only By] The Good Influence Of Our Conduct May We Bring Salvation In Human Affairs; Or Like A Fatal Comet We May Bring Destruction In Our Train.