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Love8 quotes
O happy race of mortals, if your hearts are ruled, as is the universe, by Love! — Boethius · 523Where true love is, it showeth; it will not feign. — Christine de Pizan · 1399Love 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 · 1294Love hath so long possessed me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar. — Dante Alighieri · 1294God knows I never sought anything in you except yourself; I wanted simply you, nothing of yours. — Heloise · 1132The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long. — Sir Thomas Mallory · 1485All 8 quotes →God4 quotes
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 · 1265God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived. — Saint Anselm · 1078God is a sea of infinite substance. — St. John of Damascus · 749The basic tenets of our Torah and its fundamental principles are thirteen in number: The first fundamental principle is the existence of the Creator. There is a being who exists in the most perfect mode of existence, and he is the cause of he existence of all other beings. — Maimonides · 1168Free will3 quotes
The greatest gift which God in His bounty
Bestowed in creating,
And the most conformed to His own goodness
And that which He most prizes, was the freedom of the will,
With which the creatures that have intelligence,
They all and they alone, were and are endowed. — Dante Alighieri · 1321For man proposes, but God disposes. — Thomas a Kempis · 1427What place can be left for random action, when God constraineth all things to order? — Boethius · 523Hell3 quotes
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, as sand eddies in a whirlpool. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass on. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Nature of God3 quotes
God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived. — Saint Anselm · 1078God is a sea of infinite substance. — St. John of Damascus · 749The basic tenets of our Torah and its fundamental principles are thirteen in number: The first fundamental principle is the existence of the Creator. There is a being who exists in the most perfect mode of existence, and he is the cause of he existence of all other beings. — Maimonides · 1168Seasons3 quotes
The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit. — Sir Thomas Mallory · 1485Now the summer came to pass
And flowers through the grass
Joyously sprang,
While all the tribes of birds sang. — Walther von der Vogelweide · 1230The season has shed its mantle of wind and chill and rain. — Charles d'Orleans · 1440Being in love2 quotes
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 · 1294My heart was not in me but with you, and now, even more, if it is not with you it is nowhere. — Heloise · 1132God's will2 quotes
In His will is our peace. — Dante Alighieri · 1321For man proposes, but God disposes. — Thomas a Kempis · 1427Happiness2 quotes
Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate? — Boethius · 524Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content. — Boethius · 523Hard times2 quotes
You can take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away. — Boethius · 523There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Nature2 quotes
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. — St. Bernard of Clairvaux · 1147In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary. — Maimonides · 1190Plague2 quotes
They dug for each graveyard a huge trench, in which they laid the corpses as they arrived by hundreds at a time, piling them up tier upon tier as merchandise is stowed in a ship. — Giovanni Boccaccio · 1353In this extremity of our city's suffering and tribulation the revered authority of laws, human and divine, was abased and all but totally dissolved, for lack of those who should have administered and enforced them, most of whom, like the rest of the citizens, were either dead or sick, or so hard pressed for servants that they were unable to execute any office; whereby every man was free to do what was right in his own eyes. — Giovanni Boccaccio · 1353Problem of evil2 quotes
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 · 1265Wherefore not without cause has one of your own followers asked, "If God is, whence come evil things? If He is not, whence come good?" — Boethius · 523Rule of law2 quotes
To no man will we sell, or deny, or delay, right or justice. — Magna Carta · 1215No 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 · 1215The Black Death2 quotes
They dug for each graveyard a huge trench, in which they laid the corpses as they arrived by hundreds at a time, piling them up tier upon tier as merchandise is stowed in a ship. — Giovanni Boccaccio · 1353In this extremity of our city's suffering and tribulation the revered authority of laws, human and divine, was abased and all but totally dissolved, for lack of those who should have administered and enforced them, most of whom, like the rest of the citizens, were either dead or sick, or so hard pressed for servants that they were unable to execute any office; whereby every man was free to do what was right in his own eyes. — Giovanni Boccaccio · 1353Things get better2 quotes
You can take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away. — Boethius · 523All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well. — Julian of Norwich · 1395Wisdom2 quotes
And what is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing. — Geoffrey Chaucer · 1400By first recognizing false goods, you begin to escape the burden of their influence; then afterwards true goods may gain possession of your spirit. — Boethius · 523Adversity1 quote
He said not "Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shall not be travailed, thou shalt not be diseased"; but he said, "Thou shalt not be overcome." — Julian of Norwich · 1413Appearance vs. reality1 quote
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. — Alain de Lille · 1202Art1 quote
Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti · 1435Astrology1 quote
Astrology is a disease, not a science. — Maimonides · 1195Beginning of a journey1 quote
My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Character1 quote
For he that is fallen low did never firmly stand. — Boethius · 523Color1 quote
With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Conscience1 quote
O pure and noble conscience, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! — Dante Alighieri · 1321Courage1 quote
Here one must leave behind all hesitation;
here every cowardice must meet its death. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Creation1 quote
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 · 1265Creation of the universe1 quote
The foundation of our faith is the belief that God created the Universe from nothing; that time did not exist previously, but was created. — Maimonides · 1190Destiny1 quote
If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious haven. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Dissatisfaction1 quote
Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate? — Boethius · 524