St. Teresa of Avila

St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

"I can find nothing with which to compare the great beauty of a soul and its great capacity."

• From the Interior Castle of St. Teresa of Avila, edited by E. Allison Peers.

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The Malleus Maleficarum

The Malleus Maleficarum (Written by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger in 1486)

"And so in this twilight and evening of the world, when sin is flourishing on every side and in every place, when charity is growing cold, the evil of witches and their iniquities superabound."

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Confucius

Confucius (6th and 5th century BCE)

"It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change."

• From The Analects of Confucius (Book XVII), translated by Arthur Waley.

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Anna Komnene

Anna Komnene (1083-1153 CE)

"I will wipe away the tears from my eyes, recover from my grief and continue my story, earning thereby a double share of tears, as the playwright says, for one disaster recalls another."

• This passage is from Anna Komnene's The Alexiad (translated by E.R.A. Sewter). The book is a history of her father's reign as emperor of the Byzantine Empire, but she also uses the book to infer that she, and her husband, were unjustly stripped from power after her father's death. She wrote this book after being restrained to a convent by her brother (she was linked to a failed plot to overthrow him).

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Apuleius

Apuleius (125-170 CE)

"Really, I think you are being ignorant and perverse when you account as a lie anything you've never heard of or aren't familiar with the sight of or just find too difficult for your understanding to grasp."

• From The Golden Ass or Metamorphosis by Apuleius, translated by E. J. Kenney.

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Fragments of the Early Stoics

Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta (Fragments of the Early Stoics) translated by H. von Arnim.

"Everything that is in tune with you, O Universe, is in tune with me. Nothing that is timely for you is too early or too late for me."

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Martin Luther

Martin Luther (1483-1546 CE)

"Every lawyer is either a good-for-nothing or a know-nothing. If a lawyer wants to dispute this, tell him, 'You hear? A lawyer shouldn't talk until a sow breaks wind!'"

• From Martin Luther's Table Talk, a collection of Luther's sayings gathered by his students and acquaintances and published after his death.

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