500 – 1400 CE
Troubadours, epic poetry, and devotional verse across cultures.
Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you
— Omar Khayyam
"Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you"
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life
"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life"
In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood
— Dante Alighieri
"In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood"
"The path to paradise begins in hell"
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery"
Patience is a conquering virtue
— Geoffrey Chaucer
"Patience is a conquering virtue"
People can die of mere imagination
"People can die of mere imagination"
Time and tide wait for no man
"Time and tide wait for no man"
The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on
"The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on"
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, …
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue..."
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou beside me singing i…
"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou beside me singing in the wilderness"
Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving, seized me s…
"Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving, seized me so strongly with his ..."
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