Erasmus Quotes. James Wood, comp. 1899. Dictionary of Quotations

James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Erasmus


Apothegms are, in history, the same as the pearls in the sand or the gold in the mine.	1
Ego de caseo loquor, tu de creta respondes—while I talk to you of cheese, you talk to me of chalk.	2
Homo homini aut deus aut lupus—Man is to man either a god or a wolf.	3
Impatience changeth smoke to flame.	4
Nihil morosius hominum judiciis—Nothing so peevish and pedantic as men’s judgments of one another.	5
Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions—money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion—should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labour.	6
Stulti sunt inumerabiles—Fools are without number.	7