Quote #15

The rules of grammar are crabbed things to many persons... it is important early to instil a taste for the best things into the minds of children, and I cannot see that anything is learned with greater success than what is learned by playing, and this is, in truth, a very harmless kind of fraud, to trick a person into his own profit.

More from Desiderius Erasmus

  1. The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
  2. There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
  3. It is the friendship of books that has made me perfectly happy.
  4. They say that the AntiChrist will be born of a monk and a nun. If so, there must already be thousands of AntiChrists.
  5. I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly …
  6. To know nothing is the happiest life
  7. I am a lover of liberty. I cannot and will not serve parties.
  8. Whenever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

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