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The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
How do you like our England, you will say? Believe me when I assure you that I have never liked anything as much before.
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
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.
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.
[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.
Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.
What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.
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.
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior
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.
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
Surely there is nothing so ungracious, nor nothing so cruel, but men will hold therewith, if it be once approved by custom.