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- He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. - Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings
- You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
- Saint Bernard (1090 - 1153), Epistle
- Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
- Heloise (1098 - 1164), Letter
- Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
- Alain de Lille (~1202), Parabolae
- He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]
- Eike von Repkow (~1220), Sachsenspiegel
- Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274), Two Precepts of Charity
- In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. - Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- He listens well who takes notes.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
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