13th century · Skopia

Showing 17 quotes from the 13th century

Religious literature

Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.

St. Thomas Aquinas

1265

★ 7.8

Political charter · Political literature

To no man will we sell, or deny, or delay, right or justice.

Magna Carta

1215

★ 7.3

In that part of the book of my memory, before which very little is written, there is a heading that reads "Here begins a new life".

Dante Alighieri

La Vita Nuova · 1294

★ 7.1

Religious literature

If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there would be no patience of martyrs if there were no tyrannical persecution.

St. Thomas Aquinas

1265

★ 3.9

Love and the gracious heart are a single thing… One can no more be without the other Than the reasoning mind without its reason.

Dante Alighieri

La Vita Nuova · 1294

★ 3.8

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

Dante Alighieri

La Vita Nuova · 1294

★ 3.8

Kill them all; for the Lord knoweth them that are His.

The Dialogue on Miracles · 1209

★ 3.7

No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

Magna Carta

1215

★ 3.7

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

1253

★ 3.7

Religious literature

Whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.

St. Thomas Aquinas

1265

★ 2.3

Praised be You, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day and through whom You give us light.

St. Francis of Assisi

The Canticle of Brother Sun · 1226

★ 2.1

Everything I have written seems like straw by comparison with what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

St. Thomas Aquinas

1273

★ 2.1

Religious literature

Three things are necessary for man to be saved: knowledge of what is to be believed, knowledge of what is to be desired, and knowledge of what is to be done.

St. Thomas Aquinas

1273

★ 2.0

Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation.

1212

★ 1.9

Now the summer came to pass And flowers through the grass Joyously sprang, While all the tribes of birds sang.

Walther von der Vogelweide

1230

★ 1.9

Religious literature

Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

St. Thomas Aquinas

Summa Theologicae · 1273

★ 1.4

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

Liber Parabolarum · 1202

★ 1.2