„Zámerne sa robiť bláznom, to je najvyššia múdrosť.“
Varianta: Zámerne zo seba robiť blázna – to je najvyššia múdrosť.
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„Zámerne sa robiť bláznom, to je najvyššia múdrosť.“
Varianta: Zámerne zo seba robiť blázna – to je najvyššia múdrosť.
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Varianta: Nie tí milujú knihy, ktorí ich nedotknuté schovávajú v skriniach, ale tí, ktorí ich majú ustavične v rukách.
Zdroj: [KOTRMANOVÁ, Milada.: Perly ducha. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1996 ISBN 80-902272-1-X]
„Keď hľadáš nových priateľov, nezabúdaj na starých.“
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Varianta: Ak si vytváraš nových priateľov, nezabúdaj na starých.
Zdroj: [KOTRMANOVÁ, Milada.: Perly ducha. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1996 ISBN 80-902272-1-X]
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Zdroj: .týždeň, 37/10. september 2007
Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114
Letter to Lambertus Grunnius (August 1516), published 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
As quoted in Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (2017) by By Eric Metaxas, p. 85
“War is sweet to them that know it not.”
Dulce bellum inexpertis.
Though Erasmus quoted this proverb in Latin at the start of his essay Bellum [War], and it is sometimes attributed to him, it originates with the Greek poet Pindar ("γλυκύ δ᾽ἀπείρῳ πόλεμος [War is sweet to them that know it not.]").
Variant translations:
War is sweet to those not acquainted with it.
War is sweet to those who do not know it.
War is sweet to those that never have experienced it.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Misattributed
As quoted in Words from the Wise : Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said (2007) by Rosemarie Jarski, p. 312. From The Praise of Folly.