Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
"Heidelberg Disputation: Thesis 7" (1518), http://bookofconcord.org/heidelberg.php#7
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“I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist
“Ploutos, no wonder mortals worship you:
You are so tolerant of their sins!”
Theognis of Megara (-570–-485 BC) Greek lyric poet active in approximately the sixth century BC
Source: Elegies, Lines 523-524, as translated by Dorothea Wender.
“It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (ca. 1270) http://dhspriory.org/thomas/QDdeVirtutibus2.htm#6
“This little composition, which is, alas, the last mortal sin of my old age.”
Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) Italian composer
Cette petite composition qui est, hélas, le dernier péché mortel de ma vieillesse.
Introductory note to the Petite Messe Solennelle. Translation from Justin Wintle (ed.) Makers of Nineteenth Century Culture (2002) vol. 2, p. 527.
“But the gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.”
IV. 320 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) British writer
Verse.
Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967) Swiss doctor and mystic
Source: The Passion from Within (1981), p. 147
“Play on, mortal. Every god falls at a mortal’s hands. Such is the only end to immortality.”
Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 7 (p. 208)