736

Name: Table Talk - 736
Author: Martin Luther

I am persuaded that if God had not ordained marriage, but had left men to associate with the first women they met, they themselves would very speedily have become tired of this disorderly course, and have prayed for marriage, since ’tis the very prohibition to do wrong which most excites to wrong. The ancients said: Nitimur in vetitum, semper cupirnusque negata. Quod licet ingraturn est, quod non licet acrius urit.

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Chicago: Martin Luther, "736," Table Talk, trans. William Hazlitt in The Table Talk or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther (London: D. Bogue, 1848), Original Sources, accessed July 11, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=U93VZA3VHSECKDA.

MLA: Luther, Martin. "736." Table Talk, translted by William Hazlitt, in The Table Talk or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther, London, D. Bogue, 1848, Original Sources. 11 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=U93VZA3VHSECKDA.

Harvard: Luther, M, '736' in Table Talk, trans. . cited in 1848, The Table Talk or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther, D. Bogue, London. Original Sources, retrieved 11 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=U93VZA3VHSECKDA.

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