"Heidelberg Disputation: Thesis 7" (1518), http://bookofconcord.org/heidelberg.php#7
“I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”
“Ploutos, no wonder mortals worship you:
You are so tolerant of their sins!”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Verse.
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.”
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 7 (p. 208)
