For we do not easily expect evil of those whom we love most.

Non enim facile de his quos plurimum diligimus turpitudinem suspicamur.

Peter Abelard

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Topic

Hurting others Loved ones Relationships

Author

Peter Abelard

Source

Historia Calamitatum

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

Latin

Time

1132 1130s 12th century

Era

Middle Ages

Occupation

Theologian Philosopher

From

France Europe

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Citation

Abelard, Pierre. Historia Calamitatum [The History of My Calamities]. c. 1132.

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Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

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Topic
Nature of love Love Relationships

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Source
Wind, Sand and Stars
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
French
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Terre des hommes [Wind, Sand and Stars]. Gallimard, 1939.

Another quote from the 12th century

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres

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Topic
Scientific progress Progress
Speaker
Bernard of Chartres

Author

John of Salisbury
Language
Latin
Time
1159 1150s 12th century
Era
Middle Ages
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Bernard of Chartres. Quoted in The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury, written by John of Salisbury. c. 1159, bk. 3.

Another quote from Middle Ages

He loved chivalrie,
Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

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Topic
Knights Medieval values

Author

Geoffrey Chaucer
Source
The Canterbury Tales
Language
English
Time
1400 1400s 14th century
Era
Middle Ages
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The General Prologue." The Canterbury Tales. London: William Caxton, c. 1476.

Current Citation

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The General Prologue." The Canterbury Tales, edited and translated by Nevill Coghill. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Another quote originally in Latin

The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.

Juvenal

Satires

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Topic
Traveling lightly Travel

Author

Juvenal
Source
Satires
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages
Language
Latin
Time
2nd century
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 10.

Current Citation

Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 10.