And what is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

Womman. And what is bettre than a good womman? No-thing.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

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Wisdom Girl power

Speaker

Prudence

Author

Geoffrey Chaucer

Source

The Canterbury Tales

Language

Old English

Time

1400 1400s 14th century

Era

Middle Ages

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The Tale of Melibee." The Canterbury Tales. London: William Caxton, c. 1476.

Current Citation

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The Tale of Melibee." The Canterbury Tales, edited and translated by Nevill Coghill. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Old to grow, but ever learning.

Solon

Quoted in Plutarch's Lives, by Plutarch

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Learning Wisdom Aging Old age
Speaker
Solon

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Plutarch
Source
Solon Plutarch's Lives
Genre
Historical literature
Language
Greek
Time
119 110s 2nd century
Era
Classical antiquity
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Plutarch. Βίοι Παράλληλοι [Parallel Lives]. Rome, 1470.

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Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno

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Purpose of life Virtue

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Dante Alighieri
Source
Inferno The Divine Comedy
Medium
Poem
Genre
Narrative poem Epic poem Religious literature
Language
Italian
Time
1321 1320s 14th century
Era
Middle Ages
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Original Citation

Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno [Hell]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

Current Citation

Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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

Boethius

The Consolation of Philosophy

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Love

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Boethius
Source
The Consolation of Philosophy
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Latin
Time
523 520s 6th century
Era
Middle Ages
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Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiae [On the Consolation of Philosophy]. 524, bk. 2, poem 8.

Current Citation

Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy, translated by Victor Watts. Penguin Classics, 1999, bk. 2, poem 8.