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Erasmus Quotes

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.

Isaac Newton
Atheism, Erasmus, Trinity

My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.

E. M. Forster
Law, Erasmus, Moses
E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

Martin Luther
Ignorance, Erasmus, Matter
Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.299, Fortress Press

A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.

Edwin Percy Whipple
Two, Erasmus, May
Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.11

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