Social & Racial Sayings
8 sayings found from the Medieval era from 6 authors
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The greatest joy for a man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to ride their horses, to take away their possessions, to gaze upon their weeping faces, to embrace their wives and daughters.
I am a slave of the wine-drinking sage of Shiraz.
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed, the scale is tipped to the good—he and the world are saved.
except with their wives and slave girls, for these are lawful to them.
Arise, then, and go against this wicked race, and fight for the people of God!
What are you doing, sluggish race, if not to fight for Christ?
The land of the Saracens is fertile and rich.
Slavery is a consequence of sin, and thus it is just.