Occupation: Merchant Birth: September 15, 1254 Death: January 8, 1324
I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear..
To the north of Armenia lies Zorzania Georgia, near the confines of which there is a fountain of oil which discharges so great a quantity as to furni….
One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink..
My heart beats as much as I can breathe..
The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his ….
The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim..
I have not told the half of what I saw..
And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradis….
The true sweetness of wine is one flavor.
Without stones there is no arch..
I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first ch….
If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Sara….
I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed.