Herodotus

Herodotus (5th century BCE Greek Historian)

"Indeed, I will do anything you bid me; but I will tell you none the less what I think will be best for you."

• From The Histories by Herodotus, translated by Aubrey De Sélincourt and revised by John Marincola (Penguin Classics, 2002).

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Anna Komnene

Anna Komnene

"it is not customary to judge a man's liberality by the amount of money he distributes, but rather by the character of the giver."

• From The Alexiad by Anna Komnene, translated by E.R.A. Sewter, (Penguin Classics, 2009).

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE)
"I can find no person who has been made an orator by the success of his military prowess."

• From Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators translated by E. Jones.

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The Malleus Maleficarum

The Malleus Maleficarum (Written by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, c. 1487)

"Now there are two circumstances which are certainly very common at the present day, that is to say, the connexion of witches with familiars, Incubi and Succubi, and the horrible sacrifices of small children."

• From The Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, translated by Montague Summers (Dover Publications, 1971).

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Plato

Plato (427-347 BCE)

"The field of knowledge is reality, isn't it? Its function is to know the reality of anything real?"

• From Plato's Republic, translated by Robin Waterfield, 1994.

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Geoffrey of Monmouth

Geoffrey of Monmouth (12th-century author from England)

"The leader who is as fierce as a lion in peace-time but as gentle as a lamb in time of war is not really worth much."

• From Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain (Part Three), completed in 1136 CE, translated from Latin into English by Lewis Thorpe (Penguin Classics, 1966).

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Odin From Hávamál and Snorri Sturluson

Odin from The Sayings of the High One (Hávamâl) and Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241 CE)

"All doorways
before entering
gave into caefully;
one never knows
where on the benches
enemies are sitting."

• Hávamál in The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, translated by Jesse Byock (Penguin Classics, 2005).

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