Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

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.

Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.