You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

aliquid amplius invenies in silvis, quam in libris. Ligna et lapides docebunt te, quod a magistris audire non possis.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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Topic

Spending time in nature Nature

Author

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Source

Letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

1147 1140s 12th century

Era

Middle Ages

Occupation

Catholic monk Theologian Monk Christian Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Clairvaux, St. Bernard. Letter to Magister Henry Murdach. c. 1150.

Current Citation

Clairvaux, St. Bernard. "Letter CVI." Life and Works of Saint Bernard. Aeterna Press, 2015.

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The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.

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Time
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John of Salisbury
Language
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Time
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Era
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Citation

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O happy race of mortals, if your hearts are ruled, as is the universe, by Love!

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Topic
Love

Author

Boethius
Source
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Era
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Original Citation

Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiae [On the Consolation of Philosophy]. 524, bk. 2, poem 8.

Current Citation

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Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

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Ethics

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Baruch Spinoza
Source
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Medium
Treatise
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Definition
Language
Latin
Time
1677 1670s 17th century
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Original Citation

Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 3, prop. 26, note.

Current Citation

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