Quote by Desiderius Erasmus
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that ther

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Youll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Communism
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I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Insanity
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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Platos cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and dont know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? – Desiderius Erasmus

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Illusion
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There are always flowers for those who want to see them. – Henri Matisse

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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. – John Paul Jones

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Nature

I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn. – W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919

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Its not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses. – Marco Rubio

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The only man we have any respect for is the man who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) [Preceding Fischerisms entry — Karl Lu

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One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness. – Miriam Beard

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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? – Honore de Balzac

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