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Significant Quotes:


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


 * "By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."


 * "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."


 * "If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."


 * "Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.'


 * "Humility is truth."

Major Works:


 * //Enchiridion Militis Christiani// (published 1503)
 * //On the Education of Children// (written 1506-1509)
 * //Praise of Folly// (Paris, published 1511)
 * //Julius Excluded from Heaven// (written 1513-1514)
 * //Institutis Principia Christiani// (Basel, 1516)
 * Erasmus's New Testament (published 1516)
 * //The Complaint of Peace// (Louvain, published 1517)
 * //The Antibarbarians// (published 1520)
 * The first part of //Hyperaspistes// (published 1526)
 * The second part of //Hyperaspistes// (published 1527)
 * //Small Catechism// (published 1529)
 * //On Repairing the Unity of the Church// (published 1533)