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Erasmus quotes: It becomes a matter to be put to the test of battle, when someone makes a conjunction of a word which belongs in the bailiwick of the adverbs.

It becomes a matter to be put to the test of battle, when someone makes a conjunction of a word which belongs in the bailiwick of the adverbs.

Erasmus quotes: For if by chance some woman wishes to be thought of as wise, she does nothing but show herself twice a fool.

For if by chance some woman wishes to be thought of as wise, she does nothing but show herself twice a fool.

Erasmus quotes: For what that passes among mortals everywhere is not full of folly, done be fools in the presence of fools?

For what that passes among mortals everywhere is not full of folly, done be fools in the presence of fools?

Erasmus quotes: Your library is your paradise.

Your library is your paradise.

Erasmus quotes: The desire to write grows with writing.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Erasmus quotes: Bidden or unbidden, God is present.

Bidden or unbidden, God is present.

Erasmus quotes: Again what city ever received Plato's or Aristotle's laws, or Socrates' precepts? But,

Again what city ever received Plato's or Aristotle's laws, or Socrates' precepts? But,

Erasmus quotes: He who allows oppression shares the crime.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Erasmus quotes: There are others who are rich only in wishes; they build beautiful air-castles and conceive that doing so is enough for happiness.

There are others who are rich only in wishes; they build beautiful air-castles and conceive that doing so is enough for happiness.

Erasmus quotes: for self-love is no more than the soothing of a man's self, which, done to another, is flattery. And

for self-love is no more than the soothing of a man's self, which, done to another, is flattery. And

Erasmus quotes: For what is there at all done among men that is not full of folly, and that too from fools and to fools? Against

For what is there at all done among men that is not full of folly, and that too from fools and to fools? Against

Erasmus quotes: He may lawfully praise himself that lives far from neighbors." Though,

He may lawfully praise himself that lives far from neighbors." Though,