Desiderius Erasmus

"A good man cannot be insulted."

"Learning is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"Life is a journey from ignorance to understanding."

"The greatest evil is to do nothing."

"Silence is sometimes an argument of consent."

"A man may be so much occupied in sharpening his tools that he has no time to use them."

"The world is itself awake to religion when self-interest awakens it."

"True charity is not a feeling but an act of will."

"Wisdom must be accompanied by gentleness."

"There is nothing more poisonous than hate."

"Those who cannot be refuted are always right."

"It is the height of absurdity to sow seriously and play at harvest."

"The happy man is not the one who seems happy to others."

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years of study."

"Nothing is so unequal as the equal treatment of unequal people."

"It is folly to be wise when it is a time to be drunk."

"The educated man in the medieval sense was the scholar cloistered in his study."

"Man's nature is not to be ashamed of anything."

"The measure of a man is not the number of his servants but the number of people he serves."

"Evil is not something to be overcome, but ignored."

"Only a few can be wise and powerful."

"The lover of nature finds that none of his relationships become stale."

"Art is the effort of man to express, not to explain."

"Painting is silent poetry, poetry is painting that speaks."

"The printed book is already antiquated in the learning it offers."

"Wars are fought by soldiers but won by minds."

"The common people wish to live; I only wish to live well."

"Pride in one's work is not sinful if the work itself is good."

"Youth is a time to learn by doing."

"The obstacle is often the path."