Religious Sayings
42 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 42 authors
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Do not take it as an insult that you have been defeated and taken prisoner… I have conquered greater kingdoms than yours, and have defeated other more powerful lords than you, imposing upon them the dominion of the Emperor, whose vassal I am, and who…
— Francisco Pizarro
1532
Religious
The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or at least to neglect, persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of soci…
— Adam Smith
1759
Religious