“Even a most evil man is better than the devil!”
Source: A Companion to Jan Hus (2015), pp. 201-202; Jan Hus in Booklet against the Cook-priest in response to the rival priest who swore that Hus is worse than any devil.
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Last words before John Hus died singing, being martyred July 6, 1415
Source: A Companion to Jan Hus (2015), pp. 190-191.
Jan Hus (1415); quoted in: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Volume 12, 1891, p. 401
Source: A Companion to Jan Hus (2015), p. 225.
“It is better to die well, than to live wrongly (…) who is afraid of death loses the joy of life; truth prevails all, prevails who is killed, because no adversity can harm him, who is not dominated by injustice.”
Melius est bene mori, quam male vivere (...) qui mortem metuit, amittit gaudia vitae; super omnia vincit veritas, vincit, qui occiditur, quia nulla ei nocet adversitas, si nulla ei dominatur iniquitas.
Quoted in John Huss: His Life, Teachings and Death, After Five Hundred Years (1915) by David Schley Schaff, p. 58.
Jan Hus in Letter to Christian of Prachatice, probably the most influential of his quotes, first adopted as the motto by Hussite warriors, centuries later this motto was inscribed on the banner of the Presidents of the Czechoslovakia and now (in Czech translation) is inscribed on the banner of the President of the Czech Republic.
Source: A Companion to Jan Hus (2015), p. 194.
“O holy simplicity!”
O sancta simplicitas!
Quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations (2005) by Jon R. Stone, p. 188
Spoken by Hus as he was being burned at the stake and saw an elderly peasant adding wood to the fire
