Crusader Kings III

Crusader Kings III

Historical Quotes
Kaepbora 22 Jul, 2023 @ 8:04am
Quote Suggestion
LOADING_TIP_23:1 ""There is no need to grieve. Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this." \n\n#bold - Omar Khayyam, Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet, 1048 - 1131 AD"
LOADING_TIP_24:1 ""Wealth unused might as well not exist." \n\n#bold - Averroes (Ibn Rushd), Andalusian philosopher and scholar, 1126 - 1198 AD"
LOADING_TIP_25:1 ""All acts of violence against the defenseless are dishonorable and unworthy of a true knight." \n\n#bold - Geoffroi de Charny, French knight and author of Book of Chivalry, c. 1306 - 1356 AD"
LOADING_TIP_26:1 ""The wound is the place where the Light enters you." \n\n#bold - Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi mystic, 1207 - 1273 AD"
LOADING_TIP_27:1 ""The power of the empire flows from the North." \n\n#bold - John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and power behind the throne of his nephew Richard II of England, 1340 - 1399 AD"
LOADING_TIP_28:1 ""In giving we receive, in forgiving we are forgiven, and in dying we are born to eternal life." \n\n#bold - Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian Catholic friar and preacher, 1182 - 1226 AD"
LOADING_TIP_29:1 ""The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind." \n\n#bold - Courtenay, Edward, Earl of Devon, c. 1357 - 1419 AD"
LOADING_TIP_30:1 ""When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room." \n\n#bold - Chaucer, Geoffrey, Father of English literature, c. 1343 - 1400 AD"
LOADING_TIP_31:1 ""Truth hath a quiet breast." \n\n#bold - Richard II, King of England, 1367 - 1400 AD"
LOADING_TIP_32:1 ""For in all that time of his labors in the care of souls, the sole desire that he had was to do or to undergo whatever seemed most conducive to the glory of God and the advancement of the welfare of men." \n\n#bold - Bonaventure, Saint, Doctor of the Church, c. 1221 - 1274 AD"
LOADING_TIP_33:1 ""The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom." \n\n#bold - John of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres, c. 1120 - 1180 AD"
LOADING_TIP_34:1 ""The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people." \n\n#bold - Geoffrey Chaucer, Father of English literature, c. 1343 - 1400 AD"
LOADING_TIP_35:1 ""The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment." \n\n#bold - Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux, French Abbot and primary reformer for the Cistercian order, 1090 - 1153 AD"
LOADING_TIP_36:1 ""We are as dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were, from death to renewed life." \n\n#bold - Peter of Blois, French cleric, theologian, poet and diplomat, c. 1130 - c. 1203 AD"
LOADING_TIP_37:1 ""It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." \n\n#bold - Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, Tripitaka (Dhammapada), date of translation into Pali ~5th Century AD"
LOADING_TIP_38:1 ""It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life." \n\n#bold - Elizabeth Kenny, 14th Century AD"
LOADING_TIP_39:1 ""Every man is the architect of his own fortune." \n\n#bold - Appius Claudius Caecus, Roman statesman, 4th Century BC"
LOADING_TIP_40:1 ""There is no rose without a thorn." \n\n#bold - French Proverb, prevalent in the 14th Century AD"
LOADING_TIP_41:1 ""The pen is mightier than the sword." \n\n#bold - Middle Eastern Proverb, thought to have been prevalent around 9th Century AD"
LOADING_TIP_42:1 ""Life is short, art is long." \n\n#bold - Hippocrates, Greek physician, ~400BC"
LOADING_TIP_43:1 ""Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." \n\n#bold - Maimonides, Philosopher, 1135-1204 AD"