Wisdom of Dead Worlds

The leader who is as fierce as a lion in peace-time but as gentle as a lamb in time of war is not really worth much. – Androgeus

When you know something by heart, then write it down from memory, and then that will be knowledge that you have bound with writing. But if you copy it from a book, it will just […]

He cried in a fever, “Damn! By God’s blood and by God’s liver And by God’s guts and by God’s head, She’s been with our priest!” – The Fabliaux

It is easy to be satisfied, while everything happens according to your desires. – Saga of the Volsungs

Whosever would become the friend of this world shall be accounted an enemy to God. – Gesta Romanorum

Nothing pampers arrogance more than success, or prompts to pride more surely than prosperity. – Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum

The Welsh go to extremes in all matters. You may never find anyone worse than a bad Welshman, but you will certainly never find anyone better than a good one. – Gerald of Wales, The […]

If man conceals, then God reveals; if man reveals, then God conceals. – St. Augustine

The careless shepherd feeds the wolf! – Garin, The Crane

We envy what is best, storm-winds blow through the sky, And Jove his thunder-bolts will aim at what stands high. – Ovid, 1st Century AD