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The Renaissance4 quotes
Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a glorious voyage. — Joachim du Bellay · 1558When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him. — Francis Bacon · 1625Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. — Francis Bacon · 1625Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know. — William Shakespeare · 1602Age of Enlightenment3 quotes
So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. — Samuel Johnson · 1776Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so. — Lord Chesterfield · 1747A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to county, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1761Classical antiquity3 quotes
The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face. — JuvenalTravel light and you can sing in the robber's face. — Juvenal · 127Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor. — Horace · 20 BCMiddle Ages1 quote
My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante Alighieri · 1321