Desiderius Erasmus Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

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  Inspirational, Uplifting, Light Life

• Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

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  Running, Flower, Reflection

• Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more.

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  Christian, Ignorance, People

  Desiderius Erasmus (2016). “In Praise of Folly”, p.43, Desiderius Erasmus

• 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?

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  Baby, Kissing, Men

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

• Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Giving, Advice

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