Desiderius Erasmus Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• 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.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Eye, Rocks, Self

• In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Teacher, Husband, Party

• Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Eye, Special, Causes

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

• The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Eye, Religion, Atheism

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