General Sayings

162 sayings found from the Medieval era from 13 authors

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

— Avicenna (Ibn Sina) c. 1020
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A horse is simply a horse.

— Avicenna (Ibn Sina) c. 1020
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Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

— Avicenna (Ibn Sina) c. 1020
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O what a lean cow! it is not fit to be killed: give it fodder until it gets fat.

— Avicenna (Ibn Sina) c. 1015-1020 (approximate, during his medical practice)
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Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

— Avicenna (Ibn Sina) c. 1020
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Consider your origin: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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Through me the way to the dolorous city; Through me the way to eternal pain; Through me the way among the people lost.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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The deepest hell is reserved for those who betray their friends.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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The more perfect a thing is, the more it is subject to good and bad.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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If, then, the present world goes astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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My hopes are not of this world.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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All hope abandon, ye who enter in!

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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Sweet is the memory of past toil.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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The soul that is not saved is lost.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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That day we read no more.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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