General Sayings

He who climbs highest falls deepest.

The more divine the thing, the more it is hated by the wicked.

The human race is at its best when it is most free.

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

O souls, who are so sick and heavy-laden, look to the light that never sets!

The world is not a place of rest, but of passage.

Here I came to understand that such a state as this the torments of the lost were meant to be.

My darling son now will not leave my knee, He's scared that I will go away again.

My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.

Dew is heavy on the grass below, the spider's web is ready. Heaven's ways include the human: among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.

I've watched the spring pass away again, When will I be able to return?

A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky. Two gulls drift slowly up the river. Vulnerable while they ride the wind, they coast and glide with ease.

The ladle's cast aside, the cup not green, The stove still looks as if a fiery red. To many places, communications are broken, I sit, but cannot read my books for grief.

If you're afraid - don't do it, - if you're doing it - don't be afraid!

I hate luxury. I exercise moderation… It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose once you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.

Full weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely.

He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith that hunters ben nat hooly men.

His heed was balded that shoon as any glas, And eek his face, as he hadde been enoynt.

His nekke whit was as the flour-de-lys, Thereto strong he was as a champioun.

His legs were like sticks, and no calf muscle was visible on his legs.