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Erazm z Rotterdamu

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„Jeżeli roztropność polega na doświadczeniu, to komuż to przysługuje zaszczyt jej tytułu, czy mądremu, który bądź to z poczucia wstydu, bądź to z nieśmiałości do niczego się nie bierze, czy głupiemu, którego od niczego nie odstrasza ani wstyd, bo go nie ma, ani niebezpieczeństwo, bo się go nie domyśla?”

Erazm z Rotterdamu książka Pochwała głupoty

Si rerum usu constat prudentia, in utrum magis competet eius cognominis honos, in sapientem, qui partim ob pudorem, partim ob animi timiditatem nihil aggreditur, an in stultum, quem neque pudor quo vacat, neque periculum, quod non perpendit, ab ulla re deterret? (łac.)
Pochwała głupoty

„Albowiem natura, w wielu rzeczach macocha raczej niż matka, taką nieszczęsną właściwość zaszczepiła w ludzkich duszach – i to zwłaszcza w mądrzejszych – że każdy człowiek jest z siebie niezadowolony, a podziwia innych. Skutkiem tego to więdną i giną wszystkie dary, cała uroda i wytworność życia.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu książka Pochwała głupoty

Quandoquidem id mali natura, non paucis in rebus noverca magis quam parens, mortalium ingeniis insevit, praecipue paulo cordatiorum, ut sui quemque poeniteat, admiretur aliena. Quo fit ut omnes dotes, omnis elegantia decorque vitae vitietur pereatque. (łac.)
Pochwała głupoty

„Czy jest coś równie głupiego, jak samemu sobie się podobać, samego siebie podziwiać? A z drugiej strony, co z tego, co byś mógł czynić, będzie wdzięczne, będzie miłe, co będzie piękne, jeśli sam się sobie nie podobasz?”

Erazm z Rotterdamu książka Pochwała głupoty

Quid autem aeque stultum, atque tibi ipsi placere? te ipsum admirari? At rursum quid venustum, quid gratiosum, quid non indecorum erit, quod agas, ipse tibi displicens? (łac.)
Pochwała głupoty

„Pytam ja, czy może kochać kogoś ten, kto sam siebie nie cierpi? Czy może żyć w zgodzie z innymi, kto sam ze sobą jest niezgodny? Czy może być komuś miły, kto sam dla siebie jest przykry i uciążliwy? Myślę, że tak nie będzie twierdził nikt, chyba że od samej Głupoty byłby głupszy.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu książka Pochwała głupoty

Quaeso num quemquam amabit, qui ipse semet oderit? Num cum alio concordabit, qui secum ipse dissidet? Num ulli voluptatem adferet, qui sibimet ipsi sit gravis ac molestus? Istud, opinor, nemo dixerit, nisi qui sit ipsa stultior Stultitia. (łac.)
Pochwała głupoty

„Dwie są namiętności silne i przeciwne rozumowi – gniew i pożądliwość.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu

Źródło: Nic, co ludzkie… Aforyzmy, sentencje i przysłowia, oprac. Henryk Jurand, LSW, 1982, s. 86.

„Nie tłumacz się – przyjaciele zrozumieją, wrogowie i tak nie uwierzą.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu

Źródło: „Przekrój”, t. 1, Krakowskie Wydawnictwo Prasowe, 1976, s. 34.

Erazm z Rotterdamu cytaty

„Gdyby jakiś pojedynczy człowiek chciał wszystkim iść na przekór, to bym mu radziła, aby naśladując Tymona wyniósł się gdzieś na pustynię i tam sobie sam używał na swej mądrości.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu książka Pochwała głupoty

Quod si quis unus universis velit obstrepere, huic ego suaserim, ut Timonem imitatus, in solitudinem aliquam demigret, atque ibi solus sua fruatur sapientia. (łac.)
Pochwała głupoty

„Jeżeli cię do rozkoszy ciągnie, to dziewczęta, które tu mają pierwsze słowo, całym sercem lgną do głupców, a przed mądrym nie inaczej się wzdrygają i nie inaczej go unikają jak skorpiona.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu książka Pochwała głupoty

Si voluptate ducaris, puellae, maxima huius fabulae pars, stultis toto pectore sunt addictae, sapientem haud secus ac scorpium horrent fugiuntque. (łac.)
Pochwała głupoty

Serce

„Ależ rozum – powiadają – jest rzeczą bardzo ważną! Przyznaję, że jeśli idzie o wodza, to tak, ale to jakiś rozum specjalnie wojskowy, a nie filozoficzny, bo przecie tak wspaniałych czynów dokonuje się z darmozjadami.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu książka Pochwała głupoty

Pochwała głupoty

„Czy może kochać kogoś ten, kto sam siebie nie cierpi? Czy może żyć w zgodzie z innymi, kto sam ze sobą jest niezgodny? Czy może być komuś miły, kto sam ze sobą jest przykry i uciążliwy?”

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Pochwała głupoty

O cierpieniu , Kochać się

„Całe życie ludzkie czymże jest innym jak nie jakąś komedią, w której każdy występuje w innej masce i każdy gra swoją rolę, dopóki reżyser nie spędzi go ze sceny.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu

Źródło: „Dialog”, t. 8, wyd. 5–8, RSW „Prasa”, 1963, s. 93.

O życiu , O grach

„Trzeba szanować małżeństwo, póki nie jest czyśćcem, a rozwiązać, gdy się piekłem stanie.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu

O małżeństwie , O piekle

„Moja dusza jest katolicka, a żołądek luterański.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu

Źródło: Przemysław Słowiński, Sławni ludzie w anegdocie, Videograf II, Katowice 2009, ISBN 9788371837272.

O ludziach , O duszy

„Jestże, na Boga żywego, coś szczęśliwszego od tego nasienia ludzkiego, które powszechnie nazywają głuptakami, błaznami, półgłówkami, kapuścianymi głąbami?”

Erazm z Rotterdamu książka Pochwała głupoty

Ac per Deos immortales, est ne quidquam felicius isto hominum genere, quos vulgo moriones, stultos, fatuos, ac bliteos appellant? (łac.)
Pochwała głupoty

O Bogu

„Sobie wyświadcza dobrodziejstwo, kto je wyświadcza przyjacielowi”

Erazm z Rotterdamu

Źródło: Wiek XVI-XVIII w źródłach, wybór Melania Sobańska-Bondaruk, PWN, 1999, s. 217.

O wieku

„Okropna to rzecz być oszukiwanym, ale jeszcze okropniejsza nie być oszukiwanym.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu książka Pochwała głupoty

Falli miserum est; imo non falli, miserrimum. (łac.)
Pochwała głupoty

O oszukiwaniu

„Dla chcącego nie ma nic trudnego.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu

Źródło: Wiek XVI-XVIII w źródłach, wybór Melania Sobańska-Bondaruk, PWN, 1999, s. 217.

O wieku

„Wszak pierwszy stopień poznania to poznać choćby byle jak.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu

„Czy jest coś głupszego niż, nie wiadomo dla jakich przyczyn, rozpoczynać taką walkę, z której obie strony zawsze więcej mają straty niż zysku?”

Erazm z Rotterdamu

Źródło: „Polonistyka”, t. 39, wyd. 2–10, PZWS, 1986, s. 390.

O stracie , O walce

„Kiedy przemawia złoto, elokwencja jest bezsilna.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu

Źródło: Wielka księga mądrości, wybór Jacek i Tomasz Ilga

„Czyszczenie zębów uryną jest zwyczajem Hiszpanów. Resztki jedzenia winno się z nich usuwać, nie za pomocą noża albo pazurów, na psią czy kocią modłę, i nie serwetką, ale wykałaczką z mastykowca, albo piórkiem lub kosteczką uda koguta czy kury.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu

Źródło: O wytworności obyczajów chłopięcych, tłum. Aleksandra Górska

O jedzeniu , O pomocy

„Ale czcić Chrystusa w tym, co widzialne, i dla tego, co widzialne, upatrywać w tym szczyt religijności (…) to naturalnie znaczy odstępować od prawa Ewangelii, które jest duchowe, i popadać na powrót w jakiś judaizm.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu

Źródło: Podręcznik żołnierza Chrystusowego

Chrystus

„Dzień, w którym się choć raz nie uśmiechnąłeś, to dzień bezpowrotnie stracony.”

Erazm z Rotterdamu

Źródło: Kazimierz Krukowski, Mała antologia kabaretu, Wydawnictwa Radia i Telewizji, 1982, s. 11.

„Nie z każdego drzewa zrobisz posąg Minerwy.”

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Erazm z Rotterdamu: Cytaty po angielsku

“There are monasteries where there is no discipline, and which are worse than brothels”

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Desiderius Erasmus

ut prae his lupanaria sint et magis sobria et magis pudica. There are others where religion is nothing but ritual; and these are worse than the first, for the Spirit of God is not in them, and they are inflated with self-righteousness. There are those, again, where the brethren are so sick of the imposture that they keep it up only to deceive the vulgar. The houses are rare indeed where the rule is seriously observed, and even in these few, if you look to the bottom, you will find small sincerity. But there is craft, and plenty of it — craft enough to impose on mature men, not to say innocent boys; and this is called profession. Suppose a house where all is as it ought to be, you have no security that it will continue so. A good superior may be followed by a fool or a tyrant, or an infected brother may introduce a moral plague. True, in extreme cases a monk may change his house, or even may change his order, but leave is rarely given. There is always a suspicion of something wrong, and on the least complaint such a person is sent back.
Letter to Lambertus Grunnius (August 1516), publised in Life and Letters of Erasmus : Lectures delivered at Oxford 1893-4 (1894) http://books.google.com/books?id=ussXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=%22is+no+discipline+and+which+are+worse+than+brothels%22&source=bl&ots=PnJjrkSLNB&sig=JPY0PhTf2YgYwJlf3uH2eTvCJeA&hl=en&ei=BGwXTNqTA5XANu6_pJ8L&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22is%20no%20discipline%20and%20which%20are%20worse%20than%20brothels%22&f=false edited by James Anthony Froude, p. 180

“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.”

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As quoted in Words from the Wise : Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said (2007) by Rosemarie Jarski, p. 312
Kontekst: 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.

“Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.”

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As quoted in Erasmus of Rotterdam‎ (1934) by Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul, and Cedar Paul, p. 91; also in Erasmus — The Right to Heresy (2008) by Staffan Z. Weig, p. 62

“I have no patience with those who say that sexual excitement is shameful and that venereal stimuli have their origin not in nature, but in sin. Nothing is so far from the truth.”

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In Praise of Marriage (1519), in Erasmus on Women (1996) Erika Rummel 
Kontekst: I have no patience with those who say that sexual excitement is shameful and that venereal stimuli have their origin not in nature, but in sin. Nothing is so far from the truth. As if marriage, whose function cannot be fulfilled without these incitements, did not rise above blame. In other living creatures, where do these incitements come from? From nature or from sin? From nature, of course. It must borne in mind that in the apetites of the body there is very little difference between man and other living creatures. Finally, we defile by our imagination what of its own nature is fair and holy. If we were willing to evaluate things not according to the opinion of the crowd, but according to nature itself, how is it less repulsive to eat, chew, digest, evacuate, and sleep after the fashion of dumb animals, than to enjoy lawful and permitted carnal relations?

“There are others where religion is nothing but ritual; and these are worse than the first, for the Spirit of God is not in them, and they are inflated with self-righteousness.”

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Letter to Lambertus Grunnius (August 1516), publised in Life and Letters of Erasmus : Lectures delivered at Oxford 1893-4 (1894) http://books.google.com/books?id=ussXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=%22is+no+discipline+and+which+are+worse+than+brothels%22&source=bl&ots=PnJjrkSLNB&sig=JPY0PhTf2YgYwJlf3uH2eTvCJeA&hl=en&ei=BGwXTNqTA5XANu6_pJ8L&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22is%20no%20discipline%20and%20which%20are%20worse%20than%20brothels%22&f=false edited by James Anthony Froude, p. 180
Kontekst: There are monasteries where there is no discipline, and which are worse than brothels — ut prae his lupanaria sint et magis sobria et magis pudica. There are others where religion is nothing but ritual; and these are worse than the first, for the Spirit of God is not in them, and they are inflated with self-righteousness. There are those, again, where the brethren are so sick of the imposture that they keep it up only to deceive the vulgar. The houses are rare indeed where the rule is seriously observed, and even in these few, if you look to the bottom, you will find small sincerity. But there is craft, and plenty of it — craft enough to impose on mature men, not to say innocent boys; and this is called profession. Suppose a house where all is as it ought to be, you have no security that it will continue so. A good superior may be followed by a fool or a tyrant, or an infected brother may introduce a moral plague. True, in extreme cases a monk may change his house, or even may change his order, but leave is rarely given. There is always a suspicion of something wrong, and on the least complaint such a person is sent back.

“But there is craft, and plenty of it — craft enough to impose on mature men, not to say innocent boys; and this is called profession.”

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“There is always a suspicion of something wrong, and on the least complaint such a person is sent back.”

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“If there is truth in the popular legend, that Antichrist will be born from a monk and a nun (which is the story these people keep putting about), how many thousands of Antichrists the world must have already!”

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Responding to rumours prompted by the marriage of Martin Luther, in a letter to François Dubois (13 March 1526), as translated in The Correspondence of Erasmus : Letters 1658 to 1801, January 1526-March 1527 (1974) edited by Charles Garfield Nauert and Alexander Dalzell, p. 79
Paraphrased variant: They say that the Antichrist will be born of a monk and a nun. If so, there must already be thousands of Antichrists.
Kontekst: There is no doubt about Martin Luther's marriage, but the rumour about his wife's early confinement is false; she is said however to be pregnant now. If there is truth in the popular legend, that Antichrist will be born from a monk and a nun (which is the story these people keep putting about), how many thousands of Antichrists the world must have already!

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

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Desiderius Erasmus książka Pochwała głupoty

The Praise of Folly (1511)

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

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Desiderius Erasmus książka Adagia

Adagia (1508)

“I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.”

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Spongia adversus aspergines Hutteni (1523), § 176, As quoted in Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1900) by Ephraim Emerton, p. 377
Wariant: I am a lover of liberty. I cannot and will not serve parties.

“I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.”
Ad Graecas literas totum animum applicui; statimque ut pecuniam accepero, Graecos primum autores, deinde vestes emam.

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Letter to Jacob Batt (12 April 1500); Collected Works of Erasmus Vol 1 (1974)
Variant translation: When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

“I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.”

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As quoted in Erasmus (1970) by György Faludy, p. 197

“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.”

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Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114

“Whatever you see in the more material part of yourself, learn to refer to God and to the invisible part of yourself. In that way, whatever offers itself to the senses will become for you an occasion for the practice of piety.”

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The Erasmus Reader (1990), p. 141.
Handbook of the Christian Soldier (1503)

“I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.”

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Letter to an unidentified friend (1489), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 58

“No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.”

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The Alchymyst, in Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14031/14031.txt

“Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.”

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Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 115

“In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
In regione caecorum rex est luscus.

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Desiderius Erasmus książka Adagia

Adagia (first published 1500, with numerous expanded editions through 1536), III, IV, 96
Also in the same passage of the Adagia is a variant: Inter caecos regnat strabus (Among the blind, the squinter rules).

“It might be wiser for me to avoid Camarina and say nothing of theologians. They are a proud, susceptible race. They will smother me under six hundred dogmas. They will call me heretic and bring thunderbolts out of their arsenals, where they keep whole magazines of them for their enemies. Still they are Folly's servants, though they disown their mistress. They live in the third heaven, adoring their own persons and disdaining the poor crawlers upon earth. They are surrounded with a bodyguard of definitions, conclusions, corollaries, propositions explicit, and propositions implicit. …They will tell you how the world was created. They will show you the crack where Sin crept in and corrupted mankind.”

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as quoted by James Anthony Froude, Life and Letters of Erasmus: Lectures Delivered at Oxford 1893-4 http://books.google.com/books?id=5tB4L4J9hlYC (1899)
The Praise of Folly (1511)

“He that gives quickly gives twice.”

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Adagia (1508)

“There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.”

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As quoted in Thomas More and Erasmus (1965) by Ernest Edwin Reynolds, p. 248

“Most Christians are superstitious rather than pious, and except for the name of Christ differ hardly at all from superstitious pagans.”

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The Erasmus Reader (1990), pp. 140-141.
Handbook of the Christian Soldier (1503)

“You venerate the saints, and you take pleasure in touching their relics. But you disregard their greatest legacy, the example of a blameless life. No devotion is more pleasing to Mary than the imitation of Mary's humility. No devotion is more acceptable and proper to the saints than striving to imitate their virtues.”

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The Erasmus Reader (1990), p. 144.
Handbook of the Christian Soldier (1503)

“The world thought well of my schoolmaster guardian, because he was neither a liar, nor a scamp, nor a gambler; but he was coarse, avaricious, and ignorant; he knew nothing beyond the confused lessons which he taught to his classes. He imagined that in forcing a youth to become a monk he would be offering a sacrifice acceptable to God. He used to boast of the many victims which he devoted annually to Dominic and Francis and Benedict.”

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As quoted in Life and Letters of Erasmus: Lectures Delivered at Oxford 1893-4 (1899) by James Anthony Froude

“Of how much more passion than reason has Jupiter composed us? putting in, as one would say, "scarce half an ounce to a pound."”

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The Praise of Folly (1511)

“Animals only follow their natural instincts; but man, unless he has experienced the influence of learning and philosophy, is at the mercy of impulses that are worse than those of a wild beast. There is no beast more savage and dangerous than a human being who is swept along by the passions of ambition, greed, anger, envy, extravagance, and sensuality.”

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De pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis declamatio (1529), translated by Beert C. Verstraete as On Education for Children, in The Erasmus Reader (University of Toronto Press: 1990), p. 73