Love & Life Sayings
64 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 64 authors
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The papacy is the kingdom of the devil, and the pope is the Antichrist.
If there are hundreds of moons and thousands of suns, without the Guru, there is only utter darkness.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
There are no species in nature, only individuals.
Nature is nowhere accustomed to exhibit herself more openly than in her failures.
I am the sultan of love.
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
Myself always wallowing in drunkenness, fornication, adultery, filth, murders, rapine, despoliation, hatred and all sorts of evil-doing.
Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
I have often thought, that if I were to choose a food to eat, it should be bread and water.
To attribute the motion of the earth to the sun is as absurd as to attribute the motion of the sun to the earth.
I am a German, and I love my country.
Indeed, nature is full of infinite reasons that have never been in experience.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive.
It is the lot of man to suffer; but it is also his lot to alleviate the sufferings of others.
He who studies the stars does not fear the darkness.
Nature is not a goddess, but a machine.
I am embarked on a wide ocean, boundless in its prospect, and in which, perhaps, no safe harbor is to be found.