Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth26 October 1466
caring joy possession
There is no joy in possession without sharing.
men criticism pedants
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
inspirational uplifting light
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
bed designed hundred man nature tricks
A man must hug, and dandle, and kistle, and play a hundred little tricks with his bed-fellow when he is disposed to make that use of her that nature designed her for
excited noise
Do not get excited over the noise you have made
attention buy entire greek money shall soon turned
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.