Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.
It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.
Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman
Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
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.
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
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.
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
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.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
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.
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.
[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.
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
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.
...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.
I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
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.
So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.
If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.