Erasmus

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

A man that has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

The highest form of human excellence is to question oneself and others.

What is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy, in which various persons, disguised in various costumes and masks, walk forth and play their respective parts, until the manager waves them off the stage?

Everyone is to some extent mad, only the degree differs.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

No one is born without faults.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

What is the use of a good for nothing, if you have it in abundance?

Just as a father feels for his children, so does God feel for us.

The most effective way to be a good Christian is to be a good human being.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

I would rather be a fool in a just cause than a wise man in an unjust one.

The best way to make a man a good Christian is to make him a good man.

The sun, too, has its spots.

The desire to write grows with writing.