Quote of Desiderius Erasmus - Nothing is as peevish and pedantic...

Biography - Desiderius Erasmus:

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Dutch philosopher and Christian scholar (*Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: 1467 - Died: 1536
Period:
16th century
15th century
Place of birth: Netherlands

Quote

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.”
Desiderius Erasmus

Quotes about others:

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde - Quotation of uncertain origin

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.”
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung

Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

others

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

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Quotes for: judgement

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”
Epictetus

Haste in judgement is to look for guilt.”
Publilius Syrus - Sentences

judgement

A judgment can be refuted, but never a prejudice.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.”
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.”
Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.”
Albert Camus - The Fall

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Desiderius Erasmus also said...

Man is not born, but made man.”
Desiderius Erasmus

He who knows the art of living with oneself ignores boredom.”
Desiderius Erasmus

In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
Desiderius Erasmus

king

The mind of man is so framed that it is rather taken with the false colors than truth.”
Desiderius Erasmus - In Praise of Folly

For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?”
Desiderius Erasmus

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.”
Desiderius Erasmus

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