Erasmus — "The highest form of love is to be the love of God."

"By a happy fatality, the greater part of mankind, being unable to get wisdom, enjoy instead a kind of folly that is next door to it."

"What is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which various persons, disguised in various costumes and masks, walk about and play each one his part, until at last the producer gives the s…"

"What is the difference between a man and a beast? The beast acts according to instinct, man according to reason. But how many men act according to instinct?"

"In a country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

"Everyone is to some extent mad, only the degree differs."