Geoffrey of Monmouth

Geoffrey of Monmouth (12th century Welsh/English author)

"Nothing that is acquired by force and violence can ever be held legally by anyone."

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

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Homer

Homer (8th and 7th century BCE Greek Poet)

"Young men are never dependable, but
when an old man takes a hand in such affairs, he considers the
future as well as the past, and the result is the best for both
parties."

• From The Iliad (Book 3) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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The Buddha

The Buddha (Lived between 6th-4th century BCE)

"Just as rain cannot pierce
a well-roofed house,
so passion cannot pierce
a well-cultivated mind."

• From The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter One), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

"In investigations such as we are now pursuing, it should not be so much asked 'what has occurred,' as 'what has occurred that has never occurred before.'"

• From The Murders in the Rue Morgue in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400)

"Some say the things we most desire are these:
Freedom to do exactly as we please,
With no one to reprove our faults and lies,
Rather to have one call us good and wise."

• From The Canterbury Tales (Wife of Bath's Tale) by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated to modern English by Nevill Coghill (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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Martin Luther

Martin Luther (1483-1546)

"Young fellows are tempted by girls, men who are thirty years old are tempted by gold, when they are forty years old they are tempted by honor and glory, and those who are sixty years old say to themselves, 'What a pious man I have become!'"

• From Martin Luther's Table Talk, published by Luther's friends and students in 1566. Translation in A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introduction, edited by Denis R. Janz (Fortress Press, 2008).

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Herodotus

Herodotus (490-425/420 BCE)

"Guard the head well, and the head will save the body."

• A prophecy from the Oracle of Delphi for the city of Argos, recorded by Herodotus in Book 7 of The Histories, translated by Aubrey De Sélincourt and revised by John Marincola (Penguin Classics, 2002).

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Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241 CE)

"'How should a man be referred to?'
'He should be referred to in terms of his work, what he supplies or receives or does."

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

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."

• From A Study in Scarlet, in Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection (Enhanced Media, 2016).

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Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645 CE)

"Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased."

• From Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings, (Lord Majesty Productions, 2005 edition).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849 CE)

"No man has recorded, no man has dared to record, the wonders of his inner life."

• From Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Bede

Bede (673-735 CE)

“If history records good things of good men,

the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate

what is good: or if it records evil of wicked men,

the devout, religious listener or reader is encouraged

to avoid all that is sinful and perverse and to follow

what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.”

• From Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (and relevant letters), translated by Leo Sherley-Pride, R. E. Latham and D. H. Farmer (Penguin Classics, 2003).  

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Apollonius of Rhodes

Apollonius of Rhodes (Greek/Egyptian Scholar and Poet, 3rd Century BCE)

"Mortals can never sidestep fate; the cosmic
net is extended round us everywhere."

• From Apollonius of Rhodes' epic poem, Argonautica (Book I), based on the myth of Jason and the Argonauts. The translation is by Aaron Poochigian (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus (1913-1960 CE)

"What I know, what is certain, what I cannot deny, what I cannot reject--this is what counts."

• From The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, translated by Justin O'Brien (Random House, 1983).

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Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibu (10th and 11th century Japanese novelist)

"To the noble heart that aspires to soar aloft, high above the clouds,
depths of a thousand fathoms appear very far below."

• From Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji (Chapter 17), translated by Royall Tyler (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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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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