Relationships Sayings

22 sayings found from the Medieval era from 6 authors

Love, that in gentle heart is quickly learned, seized him for the fair form that was ta'en from me; And still the mode offends me.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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Nature has made me a lover of beauty, and not of gain.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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The divine power, the supreme wisdom, and the primal love.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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And from that time, I say that to love all good is to love God.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1294
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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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The greatest pleasure a man can have is to be loved.

— Dante Alighieri c. 1308-1321
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The Wife of Bath... had set widely 'gap-teeth'.

— Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1387-1400
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A Monk ther was, a fair for the maistrie, An outridere, that loved venerie.

— Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1387-1400
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Of remedies of love she knew al chaunce, For she koude of that art the olde daunce.

— Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1387-1400
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And al be that he was a worthy man, He loved gold in special.

— Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1387-1400
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Never dieth that one, whose heart is alive with love: On the worlds record, is written the everlasting existence of ours.

— Hafez c. 1325-1390 AD (original composition)
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Pothi padh padh kar jag mua, Pandit bhayo na koye. Dhai aakhar prem ke, jo padhe so Pandit hoye. (Reading books, the world died, but none became learned. He who reads but two and a half letters of love, he becomes learned.)

— Kabir 15th Century
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Me, I'm drunk on love! Why should I connive? I stay free of the world. What friend of it am I? If you leave the one you love, You wander door to door. My friend's inside of me. Who am I waiting for?

— Kabir 15th Century
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So many bodies, so many opinions! But my Beloved, though invisible, is in all these bodies. There is no life at all without the Beloved; the Self lives as each and every one.

— Kabir 15th Century
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For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest.

— Omar Khayyam c. 11th-12th century
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And those who husbanded the Golden Grain, And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again.

— Omar Khayyam c. 11th-12th century
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And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One Flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.

— Omar Khayyam c. 11th-12th century
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When the world is filled with love, like a garden, then there will be no more sorrow.

— Rumi 13th Century
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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

— Rumi 13th Century
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