Occupation: Poet Birth: July 20, 1304 Death: July 19, 1374
Books have led some to learning and others to madness..
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds..
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too ofte….
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!.
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together..
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so m….
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the oce….
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay..
Whyle I was abowte to chaunge myn olde lyff-- What sorowe I suffred, dyseese, angre and stryff, Cracchynge myn here, my chekys all totare, Wrythynge ….
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness..
Virtue is health, vice is sickness..
A good death does honour to a whole life..
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified..
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!.
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears..
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything..
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to re….
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship..
If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by the same illness, and one half….
For virtue only finds eternal Fame..