Quotes by Erasmus, Desiderius

Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it >>

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the bes >>

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. >>

Quotations about Insanity

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other sid >>

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. >>

What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance? >>

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Erasmus, Desiderius