Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.

The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

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.

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.