General Sayings
162 sayings found from the Medieval era from 13 authors
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The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
A horse is simply a horse.
Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.
O what a lean cow! it is not fit to be killed: give it fodder until it gets fat.
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.
Consider your origin: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
Through me the way to the dolorous city; Through me the way to eternal pain; Through me the way among the people lost.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.
From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
The deepest hell is reserved for those who betray their friends.
The more perfect a thing is, the more it is subject to good and bad.
If, then, the present world goes astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
My hopes are not of this world.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!
Sweet is the memory of past toil.
The soul that is not saved is lost.
That day we read no more.