"Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!"
"Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music."
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Source: Desiderius Erasmus, Martin Luther, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: free will and salvation”
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