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To know nothing is the happiest life

— Desiderius Erasmus

More from Desiderius Erasmus

  1. They say that the AntiChrist will be born of a monk and a nun. If so, there must already be thousands of AntiChrists.
  2. Whenever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.
  3. There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
  4. Fortune favors the audacious.
  5. 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 ch…
  6. Dulce bellum inexpertis.
  7. The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
  8. It is the friendship of books that has made me perfectly happy.

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Topics in this quote

  • happiness
  • ignorance
  • knowledge
  • life
  • truth

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