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“the first historical information on the Templars is provided by a Frankish historian, Guillaume de Tyre, who wrote between 1175 and 1185.”

— Michael Baigent

“Roland, the flower of chivalry, Expired at Roncevall.” Thomas Campbell. “Hero-worship endures for ever while man endures.” Carlyle. “Roland, the gode knight.” Turpin’s History…

— Jeanie Lang

King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the…

— Horace Walpole

“In The Ante-Nicene Fathers (8 vols.) the reader will find most of the writings of the Early Church under the Pagan Empire, to the year 325.”

— George Hodges

“All his past knowledge of nature and of books, all his favourite reading of voyages and of travels which had led his school-fellows to…

— George Smith

“philosophy of Marcus Aurelius and some of the work of Seneca.”

— Robin S. Sharma

“But at last I came to understand that I was making it too complicated. For you, this is no mingling at all; for you…

— Neal Stephenson

“When the Christian Crusaders in the East came into collision with that invincible order of assassins, that order of free spirits par excellence, whose…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“For seven years he had lived bound to her, his every step subject to her scrutiny. She might as well have chained iron balls…

— Milan Kundera

“His Greatness the King Pteppicymon XXVIII, Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the Barque of the Sun,…

— Terry Pratchett

“Guillaume Belibaste, the last Cathar recorded to have burned at the stake in 1321, is said to have prophesied that “at the end of…

— Anonymous

“Eros, Lord Phanes, Protogonus,         god of love, of Chaos, Gaea, and Tartarus,                 be merciful: bless these remains of a bear which Hadrian…

— E. Llewellyn