Desiderius Erasmus
Dutch humanist scholar and theologian (1469 to 1536), born in Rotterdam; editor of the Greek New Testament and author of the Adages.
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No wild beast is more harmful to a human being than another human being
But unto man there is no wild or cruel beast more hurtful than man.
gutenberg.orgSaid c. 1513–1515This on korrents
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No wild beast is more harmful to a human being than another human being
But unto man there is no wild or cruel beast more hurtful than man.
Against War (Dulce bellum inexpertis; Tudor translation of 1533-4, ed. J. W. Mackail, 1907) Said c. 1513–1515
Fighting one another with weapons is worse than the behaviour of any wild beast
But it seemeth to me far to pass all wild and all brute beastliness, to fight together with weapons.
Against War (Dulce bellum inexpertis; Tudor translation of 1533-4, ed. J. W. Mackail, 1907) Said c. 1513–1515
The fellowship of learning binds people together more closely than marriage ties or kinship
For I dare boldly say, that neither affinity nor yet kindred doth bind the minds of men together with straiter and surer bands of amity, than doth the fellowship of them that be learned in good letters and honest studies.
Against War (Dulce bellum inexpertis; Tudor translation of 1533-4, ed. J. W. Mackail, 1907) Said c. 1513–1515
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Peace is the mother of all good things, while war suddenly destroys everything pleasant and fair
Peace is the mother and nurse of all good things. War suddenly and at once overthroweth, destroyeth, and utterly fordoeth everything that is pleasant and fair, and bringeth in among men a monster of all mischievous things.
Against War (Dulce bellum inexpertis; Tudor translation of 1533-4, ed. J. W. Mackail, 1907) Said c. 1513–1515
Weighing its gains against its harms shows that an unjust peace is far better than a righteous war
Now if a man will weigh, as it were in a pair of balances, the commodities of war on the one side and the incommodities on the other side, he shall find that unjust peace is far better than righteous war.
Against War (Dulce bellum inexpertis; Tudor translation of 1533-4, ed. J. W. Mackail, 1907) Said c. 1513–1515
Killing Turks pleases the devil, because however wicked they are, they are people for whose salvation Christ died
For be the Turks never so wicked, yet they are men, for whose salvation Christ suffered death. And killing Turks we offer to the devil most pleasant sacrifice, and with that one deed we please our enemy, the devil, twice: first because a man is slain, and again, because a Christian man slew him.
Against War (Dulce bellum inexpertis; Tudor translation of 1533-4, ed. J. W. Mackail, 1907) Said c. 1513–1515
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