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- Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
- Petrarch (1304 - 1374), De Remedies
- Manners maketh man.
- William of Wykeham (1324 - 1404), Motto of Winchester College and New College, Oxford
- Who will bell the cat?
- William Langland (1332 - 1400), The Vision of Piers Plowman
- He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.'
- Julian of Norwich (1342 - 1416), Revelations of Divine Love
- Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471), Imitation of Christ
- And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471), Imitation of Christ
- First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471), Imitation of Christ, 1420
- I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
- Sir Thomas Malory (1400 - 1471), Le Morte d'Arthur
- Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.
- Aldus Manutius (1449 - 1515), Placard on the door of the Aldine Press
- Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
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