Desiderius Erasmus

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Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
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Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Humility is truth.
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.
Time takes away the grief of men.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

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