quotes by ersmus

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Your library is your paradise.

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Prevention is better than cure.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

quotes byThomas More

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

This hath not offended the king.

Why dost thou gaze upon the sky? O that I were yon spangled sphere! Then every star should be an eye, To wander o'er thy beauties here.

books by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

quotes by petrarch

Five great enemies of peace inhabit with us — avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride; if these 

were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the crue.

quotes by francis bacon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

In charity there is no excess.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon-Former Lord Chancellor

Born: January 22, 1561, Strand, London, United Kingdom

Died: April 9, 1626, London, United Kingdom

English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist and author

famous for his promotion of the scientific method. Bacon workded as attorney general and Lord Chancellor of England. He valued  work was philosophical more 

Thomas More-Saint

Born: February 7, 1478, City of London, United Kingdom

Died: July 6, 1535, London, United Kingdom

was a catholic saint

he spend most mid twenties with the london srict Carthusian and alomost became one .

more was lawyer at henry vii's court. he wrote his most famous work utopia published 1516 the book was modeled after plato's republic it decribes land free of prideful greed and violence.