"For hym was levere have at his beddes……" — Geoffrey Chaucer
"For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie."
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91 Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in…
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk...
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There's never a new fashion but it's old.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be…
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
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After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is…
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Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can…
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must…
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I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'.
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The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which…
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all…
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