War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

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.

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

Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.