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Authors of the 15th century

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All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther
LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century
3.8 · 19 votes · 87 reads
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Erasmus of Rotterdam
TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century
3.3 · 31 votes · 38 reads
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Nature
[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
Leonardo da Vinci
PainterItaly1452 · 15th century
3.9 · 32 votes · 61 reads
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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Thomas Kempis
AuthorGerman1379 · 14th century
3.3 · 52 votes · 162 reads
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Countries
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.
Hernan Cortes
LeaderSpanish1485 · 15th century
4.2 · 51 votes · 56 reads
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Feelings
Draw the curtain, the fraud is over.
François Rabelais
WriterFrench1495 · 15th century
3.9 · 61 votes · 158 reads
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Thought and Reason
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
Niccolò Machiavelli
PoliticianItaly1469 · 15th century
3.5 · 62 votes · 3 reads
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