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Desiderius Erasmus · Education

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Desiderius Erasmus

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Age

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Time takes away the grief of men.

Men

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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Truth

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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.

Nature