For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?
~ Desiderius Erasmus

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Most Christians are superstitious rather than pious, and except for the name of Christ differ hardly at all from superstitious pagans.
~ Desiderius Erasmus

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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.
~ Desiderius Erasmus

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I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
~ Desiderius Erasmus

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There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
~ Desiderius Erasmus

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If we were willing to evaluate things not according to the opinion of the crowd, but according to nature itself, how is it less repulsive to eat, chew, digest, evacuate, and sleep after the fashion of dumb animals, than to enjoy lawful and permitted carnal relations?
~ Desiderius Erasmus

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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
~ Desiderius Erasmus

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