Desiderius Erasmus

“Fortune favors the audacious.”

“It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.”

“In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”

“Your library is your paradise.”

“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”

“Man is to man either a god or a wolf.”

“To know nothing is the happiest life.”

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

“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?”

“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.”

“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”

“The desire to write grows with writing.”

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