"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"He who allows oppression shares the crime."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"when I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king (In regione caecorum rex est luscus)."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"The desire to write grows with writing."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes"
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food"
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”"
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"When I get a little money I buy books; if there's any left, I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"When I have a little money I Buy Books...If any leftover I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if there is any left I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus