Quotes by Erasmus, Desiderius

Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of >>

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood t >>

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. >>

Quotations about Law and Lawyers

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, >>

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime >>

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the >>

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius