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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.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.
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Retain the wind by compressing the belly.
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What the hell are you? (Desiderius)
I'm her godfather, with a heavy emphasis on the god part. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm her godfather, with a heavy emphasis on the god part. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
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Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
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It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
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Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
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Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.
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How do you like our England, you will say? Believe me when I assure you that I have never liked anything as much before.
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The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
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'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
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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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Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
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Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
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Prevention is better than cure.
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I hate one that remembers what's done over the cup.
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God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.
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No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.
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It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
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When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
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The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
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When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.
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Frugality is a handsome income.
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[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.
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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.
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By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
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He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.
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War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.
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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.
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
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Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
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Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.
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No one respects a talent that is concealed.
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Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.
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War is delightful for those who don't know it
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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.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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To know nothing is the happiest life.
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Fortune favors the audacious.
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There is no joy in possession without sharing.
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Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
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The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.
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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
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It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
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Time takes away the grief of men.
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
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Of two evils choose the least.
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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.
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It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
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Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.
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Fortune favours the audacious.
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He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.
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They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
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Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.
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It is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all.
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Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.
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Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
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There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
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Eagles don't catch flies.
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Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
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A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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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
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Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.
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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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We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us.
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
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Fools are without number.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
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The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.
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Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war.
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A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.
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They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
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By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.
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Humility is truth.
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The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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Surely there is nothing so ungracious, nor nothing so cruel, but men will hold therewith, if it be once approved by custom.
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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman
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I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
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