Adages of Erasmus Quotes

“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, Adagia. Lateinisch / Deutsch

“Is there anywhere on earth exempt from these swarms of new books? Even if, taken out one at a time, they offered something worth knowing, the very mass of them would be an impediment to learning from satiety if nothing else”
― Erasmus, Adages of Erasmus

“Priests are said in Scripture to devour the sins of the people; and they find sins so hard to digest that they must have the best wine to wash them down.”
― Erasmus, Adages of Erasmus